Causas sociales de la mortalidad durante la industrialización vizcaína (1877-1930)

Abstract

The article discusses the relationship between the social control of the mortality and the economic development along the first industrialization of Vizcaya (1877-1930). We want to contrast the hypothesis dealing with the social factors wich explain the reality of the sickness in a group during the first period of the industrial capitalism. In order to it we report on the contribution of the main causes of the death to the deep fall of the expectation of life produced in the last third period of the XIX c. as well as to the secular fall of the mortality at the beginning of the XX c. in the industrial urban area of the Great Bilbao. It is done an evaluation of the factors of risk of the population based on an hierarchy of the different illness. It is considered the exposition to the contagion depending on the levels of housing, health policy, hygienic conditions as well as nutritive status.