19th century infant mortality decline in the Nordic countries 2003 Association for History and Computing Conference University of Troms Gunnar Thorvaldsen Registreringssentral for historiske data Deceased 0-1 years by 100 live births Infant mortality in a number of countries Infant mortality in Sweden Infant mortality in Norway IMR in Norway Denmark x Infant mortality in northern Finland, Sweden and Norway around 1860 IMR around 1920 IMR by province CDR and IMR Norway and Sweden Percent of live births Source: Johannessen (1902) Dead 0-1 in Norway by age in months Dead aged 0-1 in Norway relative to live births The country RuralTowns Legitimate Illegitimate Black: boys Red: girls Dead infants by month of year References Denmark:Anne Lkke, Dden i barndommen, Kbenhavn: 1998 Iceland: lf Gararsdottir: Saving the Child. Regional, cultural and socio- economic aspects of the infant mortality decline in Iceland , 2002 Finland: Kari J. Pitknen, Infant Mortality Decline in a Changing Society, in Yearbook of Population Research in Finland 1983, Sweden: Sren Edvinsson, Marie C Nelson, John Rogers: Dying Young. Swedish infant and childhood mortality in review. Hygiea Internationalis. Norway: Rural infant mortality in nineteenth century Norway. Hygiea Internationalis:Classic work on neonatology: Wetnurse A History of the Breast Iceland 1920 Survival in days of breast-fed and artificially fed infants in a fishing village in Iceland Biometric test - Norway Causes of death IMR, ethnicity and strata Anders Brndstrm, Demographic Database, Ume