Mortality in the Rural Communities of Cluj County (1850–1910)
Mortality in the Rural Communities of Cluj County (1850–1910)

Summary/Abstract: This study aims at describing the evolution of mortality in three villages from Cluj county: Bonţida (the Orthodox and Roman-Catholic parish), Stoiana (the Reformed parish) and Sava (the Greek-Catholic and Reformed parish) between the Revolution of 1848–1849 and the First World War. The historical sources we used were the parish registers and the censuses of the population in Transylvania from 1850, 1857, 1880, 1900 and 1910. The death dynamic was different from one parish to another, as it was influenced on a short term by several epidemics: cholera (1855, 1872–1873), measles (1863) and diphtheria (1877). Several socio-economic factors, combined with the existing geographical conditions, determined on a long term different trends of mortality. Special attention was granted to the distribution of mortality by sexes, to the structure of mortality by age categories, to the seasonal movement of mortality, and to the causes of deaths.

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