Featuring novel weekly mortality data for London spanning 1866–1965, used to analyze the changing relationship between temperature and mortality. It was created by W. Walker Hanlon and shows that warm weeks led to elevated mortality in the late 19th century, primarily from infant digestive diseases, a pattern that diminished after World War I.
Use Cases
- Analyze the relationship between weekly temperature and mortality rates over a 100-year period.
- Study the decline in infant deaths from digestive diseases and its impact on the temperature-mortality relationship after WWI.
- Estimate the number of heat-related deaths averted due to changes in the disease environment, quantified as 0.9–1.4 percent of all deaths.
- Examine how urban development in London altered the health impacts of temperature extremes.
Strengths
- Covers a long and detailed 100-year time series from 1866 to 1965.
- Provides weekly-level granularity for mortality and temperature analysis.
- Based on novel archival data, enabling historical analysis of public health transitions.
Limitations
- Specific column names, row counts, and file formats are unknown, limiting immediate analytical utility.
- The data is historical and may not reflect contemporary relationships or include modern demographic variables.
- Focus is exclusively on London, limiting geographical generalizability.
Provenance
- Source
- W. Walker Hanlon via ICPSR Harvested Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Constructed from novel weekly mortality archival records.
- Time Range
- 1866–1965
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- London