Mortality rate of the local population of Yakutia in the 19th - early 20th centuries (according to metric books)
https://doi.org/10.25789/YMJ.2021.73.16
Abstract
The assessment of the level, seasonality and structure of mortality of the local population of Yakutia at the end of the 19th – beginning of the 20th centuries was carried out on the basis of the analysis of information from the birth registers of the Bilyuchanskaya Nikolaevskaya and Sheinskaya Georgievskaya churches of the Vilyui district. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the fact that such studies in Yakutia have never been carried out before.
As a result of the study, it was found that of the total number of deaths, the share of children under 5 years old was 41.7%, and this index corresponds to the official statistics of the beginning of the 20th century. In addition, it is shown that the data on infant mortality among the Yakut population, established during the work of the medical and sanitary detachment of the Yakut expedition of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1925- 1926, are exaggerated due to the fact that this summary included data on the mortality of children under 5 years. In reality, this indicator was at the level of those in Germany (1910-1914) or Japan (1920-1922). For the first time, the data on the mortality of Yakut women in the pre-revolutionary period due to childbirth or postpartum complications were specified. A significant part of the population died from respiratory diseases, such as tuberculosis. In contrast to other regions of Russia, the peak of mortality of the population, regardless of age, fell on the spring, which was primarily due to the deterioration in the nutrition of the population at this time of the year. Presumably, the wide spread of diseases identified by the authors of the article as infectious diseases (typhus, scarlet fever, measles, smallpox, influenza, and others) could be hampered by the dispersed residence of the local population across the territory of parishes. In the general structure of mortality, mortality from external causes was insignificant. However, most of the deaths in this group were due to careless handling of fire and drowning.
About the Authors
S. S. Sleptsov
Yakutian Scientific Center of Complex Medical Problems Laboratory of clinical-population and medicosocial research
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Sleptsov Spiridon Spiridonovich - Candidate of Biological Sciences, Associate Professor, Senior Researcher
Yakutsk
+7 924 165 78 35
S. S. Sleptsova
North-Eastern Federal University named after M.K. Ammosov "
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Sleptsova Snezhana Spiridonovna - Doctor of Medical Sciences, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Infectious Diseases, Phthisiology and Dermatovenereology of the Medical Institute
Yakutsk
+7 914 271 87 70
Z. N. Alekseeva
Yakutian Scientific Center of Complex Medical Problems Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Diseases
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Alekseeva Zinaida Nikolaevna - junior researcher
Yakutsk
+7 924 160 87 38
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Sleptsov S.S., Sleptsova S.S., Alekseeva Z.N. Mortality rate of the local population of Yakutia in the 19th - early 20th centuries (according to metric books). Yakut Medical Journal. 2021;(1):57-60. https://doi.org/10.25789/YMJ.2021.73.16
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