A collection of novel weekly mortality data for London spanning the century from 1866 to 1965. It was created by W. Walker Hanlon to analyze the changing relationship between temperature and mortality as the city developed.
Use Cases
- Analyze the relationship between weekly temperature and mortality rates over a 100-year period.
- Study the decline in infant digestive disease deaths as a factor in the temperature-mortality relationship after WWI.
- Estimate averted heat-related deaths by comparing mortality patterns in the late 19th century to the post-WWI period.
- Investigate how urban development and public health improvements altered the impact of warm weeks on mortality.
Strengths
- Covers a 100-year time series from 1866 to 1965.
- Provides weekly resolution for analyzing short-term mortality fluctuations.
- Focuses on a major historical urban center (London) during a period of significant development.
Limitations
- Specific column names, row counts, and file formats are unknown.
- Data may require significant cleaning and contextualization for modern analysis.
- The analysis is focused on historical patterns which may not be directly applicable to contemporary settings.
Provenance
- Source
- ICPSR Harvested Dataverse
- Collection Method
- null
- Time Range
- 1866 to 1965
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- London