DEATH

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DEATH
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AT AN EARLY AGE
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VITAL STATISTICS

• Figures for Sweden, 1778-82
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• Probability of dying by age 1 (male) 19.7
• Life expectancy at birth (male) 35.9
• Probability of dying by age 1 (female) 17.7
• Life expectancy at birth (female) 38.5
• Largest segment of population (both genders)
  ages 1-4
  

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VITAL STATISTICS

• Figures for Sweden, 1913-17
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• Probability of dying by age 1 (male) 5.5
• Life expectancy at birth (male) 57
• Probability of dying by age 1 (female) 4.3
• Life expectancy at birth (female) 59.6
• Largest segment of population (both genders)
  ages 1-4
  

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VITAL STATISTICS

• Figures for Sweden, 1965
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• Probability of dying by age 1 (male) 1.4
• Life expectancy at birth (male) 71.7
• Probability of dying by age 1 (female) 1.1
• Life expectancy at birth (female) 76.1
• Largest segment of population (both genders)
  ages 15-19, but more even distribution
  

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1750-1890 waning of certain communicable
diseases, esp. those of childhood and youth.
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1850-1939 waning of most respiratory diseases,
decrease in infant mortality.
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The Home/House
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Medieval home undifferentiated as to room,
occupants.No privacy, no sense of family.
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DomesticityDutch invention of 17th
century.Cleanliness, privacy, intimacy.
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GOVERNMENTS
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EUROPE 1700
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KING JOHN GRANTING THE MAGNA CHARTA, 1215
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LOUIS XIV (r. 1643-1715)
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SLAVERY IN USA
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The Individual Modern Western individual
own internally motivated entity member of
larger groups ethnic, national. Pre-modern i
ndividual member of small commonwealth
family, social class, linguistic/cultural group
rather than ethnic in modern sense.