Item Detail
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10773
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English
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High Risk Childbearing : Fertility and Infant Mortality on the American Frontier
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Social Science History
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Fall 1992
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16
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337-63
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The relationship between childbearing (fertility) and infant mortality in the Utah frontier population during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was investigated. A variable factor to be considered was the pioneering during that time. Also examined were a mixed urban-rural population and a high proportion of foreign-born whose childbearing behaviors and other customs influenced their mortality levels. The pattern of fertility change among the Utah population was similar to the U.S. population; only levels, rather than trends, differed.