Temperature, Disease, and Death in London: Analyzing Weekly Data for the Century from 1866-1965

Hanlon, W. Walker; Hansen, Casper Worm; Kantor, Jake

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“…The 300,000 mortality observations in our main data (Hanlon, Hansen, and Kantor 2020) cover 4,540 weeks stretching from 1866 to 1965, with breaks in 1915-1918 (WWI) and 1940-1948 (WWII). We end our main study period in 1965 because the geographic area for which our data are reported changed at that point, though in Online Appendix A.2, we present supplementary results for 1981-2006.…”

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Temperature, Disease, and Death in London: Analyzing Weekly Data for the Century from 1866 to 1965

Hanlon¹,

Hansen²,

Kantor³

2021

J. Econ. Hist.

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Using novel weekly mortality data for London spanning 1866-1965, we analyze the changing relationship between temperature and mortality as the city developed. Our main results show that warm weeks led to elevated mortality in the late nineteenth century, mainly due to infant deaths from digestive diseases. However, this pattern largely disappeared after WWI as infant digestive diseases became less prevalent. The resulting change in the temperature-mortality relationship meant that thousands of heat-related deaths—equal to 0.9-1.4 percent of all deaths— were averted. These findings show that improving the disease environment can dramatically alter the impact of high temperature on mortality.

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Temperature, Disease, and Death in London: Analyzing Weekly Data for the Century from 1866 to 1965

Hanlon¹,

Hansen²,

Kantor³

2021

J. Econ. Hist.

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“…While the coefficients are smaller than those in table 5, with the impact of a one percentage point increase in CWS on waterborne disease mortality falling to closer to 0.2%, CWS retains its significance. 1871-1900 1871-1900 1871-1900 1871-1900 1871-1900 1882-1900 1882-1894 1876-1900 (Hanlon, Hansen and Kantor 2020). 25 Comparing columns 4 and 5 suggests expansion of CWS in other companies' districts slowed the increase in mortality during the drought years.…”

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What are the health benefits of a constant water supply? Evidence from London, 1860–1910

Troesken

Tynan

Yang

2021

Explorations in Economic History

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“…It is estimated that a one‐percentage‐point increase in the population with access to a constant water supply caused as much as a 0.4 per cent reduction in mortality from waterborne disease. Among other articles on the topic of London was one by Hanlon et al., who analyse the effect of temperature on mortality in the capital city over the century from 1866 to 1965. Using weekly temperature data and weekly mortality data disaggregated by cause and age group, they arrive at a number of conclusions.…”

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Review of periodical literature for 2021

Varian

2022

The Economic History Review

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Occasionally, several articles published in the same year converge upon a quite specific theme. Sometimes, the convergence may be attributed to newly available data, for example, from population censuses, or to a significant anniversary, for example, the centenary of the First World War. Other times, it may arise from an ambitious programme of research having come to fruition. Yet, especially for the heavily studied period from 1850 to 1945, there are occasions when the clustering of articles around a closely circumscribed theme happens, seemingly, by chance. These serendipitous convergences afford readers of economic and social history a more comprehensive treatment of topics than would have been expected. One of the purposes of this review (and one of the joys of the reviewer) is to bring these convergences to the attention of economic and social historians.In 2021, no less than five articles converged, serendipitously, on the topic of British emigration to Australasia. These articles spanned six authors and three journals, viz. Australian Economic History Review, Historical Research, and Social History of Medicine. Relying on shipping records, Ward estimates that, during the period from 1852 to 1915, approximately 20 per cent of British emigrants to the colony of Victoria eventually returned to Britain. The returning migrants, who were mostly women, were strongly influenced by social networks. Ward's article includes both quantitative analysis and biographical vignettes of returning migrants. One of these migrants was Annie Martlew, who emigrated from Liverpool to Melbourne in 1884, only to return two decades later as a widow with five young children, motivated by the existence of a stronger support network in Britain. Social networks are a potential explanation for a paradox identified by Hatton in his study of emigration from the United Kingdom to the Anglosphere during the late nineteenth century. Surprisingly, he finds that emigrants to Australia and New Zealand were, on average, more skilled than emigrants to Canada and the United States, despite wages exhibiting a higher skill premium in North America. Hatton speculates that the lower skill content of emigrants from the United Kingdom-importantly, including Ireland-to the United States (vis-à-vis migrants to Australasia) might be due to the presence of greater networks of previous migrants there. Leaving aside the skill content of migrants, the sheer number of migrants to Australasia was positively influenced byThis is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.

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Temperature, Disease, and Death in London: Analyzing Weekly Data for the Century from 1866-1965

Cited by 3 publications

References 18 publications

Temperature, Disease, and Death in London: Analyzing Weekly Data for the Century from 1866 to 1965

Temperature, Disease, and Death in London: Analyzing Weekly Data for the Century from 1866 to 1965

What are the health benefits of a constant water supply? Evidence from London, 1860–1910

Review of periodical literature for 2021

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