Janet McCalman

Class and respectability in a working‐class suburb: Richmond, Victoria, before the great war∗

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 04-1982

DOI: 10.1080/10314618208595673

The Good Life: what about the children?

Publisher: Wiley

Date: 09-2010

DOI: 10.1002/J.1839-4655.2010.TB00165.X

The Impact of the First World War on Female Employment in England

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Date: 1971

DOI: 10.2307/27508026

Origins of ‘the gap’: perspectives on the historical demography of aboriginal victorians

Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Date: 11-02-2021

DOI: 10.1007/S12546-020-09253-X

Fractional Identities: The Political Arithmetic of Aboriginal Victorians

Publisher: MIT Press - Journals

Date: 04-2008

DOI: 10.1162/JINH.2008.38.4.533

Abstract: Established as a British Colony in 1835, Victoria was considered the leader in Australian indigenous administration—the first colony to legislate for the “protection” and legal victualing of Aborigines, and the first to collect statistical data on their decline and anticipated disappearance. The official record, however, excludes the data that can explain the Aborigines' stunning recovery. A painstaking investigation combining family histories Victoria's birth, death, and marriage registrations and census and archival records provides this information. One startling finding is that the surviving Aboriginal population is descended almost entirely from those who were under the protection of the colonial state.

Sex and Suffering: Women's Health and a Women's Hospital: The Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne 1856-1996

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Date: 2002

DOI: 10.2307/27516858

Journeyings. The Biography of a Middle-Class Generation 1920-1990

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Date: 1994

DOI: 10.2307/27509294

Parental loss in young convicts transported to Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania), 1841–53

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 09-09-2018

DOI: 10.1080/1081602X.2018.1513855

Population and health

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Date: 05-11-2013

DOI: 10.1017/CHO9781107445758.015

A mandatory intercalated degree programme: Revitalising and enhancing academic and evidence-based medicine

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 19-11-2010

DOI: 10.3109/0142159X.2010.528807

Response by Janet McCalman

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 02-10-2019

DOI: 10.1080/14490854.2019.1670078

Population and health

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Date: 05-11-2013

DOI: 10.1017/CHO9781107445758.017

Inequalities of Gender and Health 1857-1985: A Long-run Perspective from the Melbourne Lying-In Hospital Birth Cohort

Publisher: Wiley

Date: 09-2008

DOI: 10.1002/J.1839-4655.2008.TB00088.X

Research note: The founders and survivors project

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 29-10-2010

DOI: 10.1016/J.HISFAM.2010.08.002

Building Longitudinal Datasets From Diverse Historical Data in Australia

Publisher: International Institute of Social History

Date: 10-08-2021

DOI: 10.51964/HLCS10939

Abstract: Australia is rich in population datasets generated to manage convicts, civilians, stock, land and the colonised and displaced First Nations people. It has also preserved all service and pension data from both world wars. Through nominal linkage using volunteers and paid research staff, it has been possible over the past twenty years to build four cradle-to-grave datasets derived from administrative cohorts: poor white babies born in a charity hospital 1858–1900 Aboriginal Victorians from 1855 to 1988 convicts transported to Van Diemen’s Land 1818-1853 and servicemen who embarked for World War I from the State of Victoria. The abundance of digitised historical sources from government archives to historical newspapers enables the practice of demographic prosopography, with a wide range of variables that have yielded new insights into Australia’s population and social history.

A health transition: Birth weights, households and survival in an Australian working-class population sample born 1857–1900

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 03-2008

DOI: 10.1016/J.SOCSCIMED.2007.11.040

Abstract: There is increasing interest in life course epidemiology. In this article we investigated the relationship between characteristics at birth and survival and year of birth and survival. We have detailed information about birth characteristics and cause of death for 8584 subjects from a cohort of 16,272 registered live births to European Australians in a charity hospital in Melbourne between 1857 and 1900. Women giving birth at the hospital were among the poorest in Melbourne, with almost half unmarried. The adult death certificates of the subjects were traced until 1985. We found that infant mortality was substantially higher in babies who were illegitimate, firstborn, had younger mothers, a birth weight <6lb or were a preterm birth. These factors had a weaker association with child mortality and were not associated with adult survival time. Infant mortality was substantially lower in the cohort born 1891-1900 (36%) than previously (58%), a major improvement not seen for child mortality or adult lifespan. Likely reasons for this improvement are the introduction of antisepsis in maternity wards, enforced registration and police supervision of persons other than their mother who cared for babies, strictly monitored feeding practices and a mandatory autopsy and coronial enquiry for such babies who died. We conclude that this is an early ex le of a successful public health intervention.

Colonialism and the health transition: Aboriginal Australians and poor whites compared, Victoria, 1850-1985

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 25-08-2009

DOI: 10.1016/J.HISFAM.2009.04.005

Birthweight and coronary heart disease in a cohort born 1857–1900 in Melbourne, Australia

Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)

Date: 08-03-2006

DOI: 10.1093/IJE/DYL032

Abstract: The widely observed association between birth size and risk of later coronary heart disease (CHD) has not been examined in an impoverished pre-20th century birth cohort. Birth weights and maternal characteristics, for births between 1857 and 1900 in a charity hospital, were recorded from preserved ledgers. Names were linked to death certificates to determine age and cause of death. Death with CHD was coded using specific criteria, and survival analysis methods were used to relate risk of CHD to birth weight, allowing for competing causes of death and adjusting for potentially confounding maternal factors. Death certificates were traced for 8,584 (53%) of 16,272 registered live-births. Survival analyses were confined to 2,938 subjects (1,572 male, 1,366 female) who survived beyond age 40, since none of the 486 CHD cases was recorded earlier. CHD risk increased with time, but there was no evidence that it was related to birth weight, in men or women. We did not replicate findings in more recent cohorts. This may represent a true lack of association in a historical cohort who we believe remained impoverished through their early life. However, we acknowledge the strong possibility of misclassification of cause of death by the person filling in the death certificate and/or our coding criteria, and temporal change in diagnostic criteria for CHD. We cannot exclude the possibility that low birth weight babies 'programmed' in utero for later CHD were more likely to die in infancy, in this cohort with a high infant mortality rate.

Family and country: Accounting for fractured connections under colonisation in Victoria, Australia

Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Date: 03-2016

DOI: 10.1007/S12546-016-9160-5

Trends in birthweight between 1857 and 1883, in Melbourne, Australia

Publisher: Wiley

Date: 07-2003

DOI: 10.1046/J.1365-3016.2003.00500.X

Abstract: Epidemiological evidence suggesting that subjects with lower birthweight have an increased risk of adult cardiovascular disease has led to increased interest in factors influencing birthweight. We have documented large changes in mean birthweight over a relatively short historical period from 1857 to 1883. Mean birthweight declined progressively from 7.9 lb (3.6 kg) in the period 1857-63 to 6.9 lb (3.1 kg) in 1874-78, then rose to 7.5 lb (3.4 kg) for the period 1879-83. We found the expected relationships between infant birthweight and maternal age, parity and marital status, and identified an association between birthweight and maternal country of birth. However, neither temporal changes in recorded maternal characteristics nor external economic indicators for the colony explained the trends in birthweight. From historical information, we believe that the explanation for our findings lies primarily with the increasing poverty, disease, mental illness, alcohol abuse and criminal activity among women admitted to the hospital between 1860 and the mid-1870s, and improvements from around 1880, when old housing was replaced and prostitutes were moved out of the area. Our findings highlight the difficulty of capturing lifestyle factors using routinely collected data, and the need for historical expertise when examining historical data.

Mortality under and after sentence of male convicts transported to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), 1840–1852

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 18-03-2015

DOI: 10.1080/1081602X.2015.1022198

Colonial health transitions: Aboriginal and ‘poor white’ infant mortality compared, Victoria 1850–1910

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 15-03-2011

DOI: 10.1016/J.HISFAM.2010.09.005

Respectability and working‐class politics in late‐Victorian London∗

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 04-1980

DOI: 10.1080/10314618008595628

Commentary on Stanesby et al. (2018): The importance of social change and trends in understanding increases in women's drinking in post-WWII Australia

Publisher: Wiley

Date: 02-10-2018

DOI: 10.1111/ADD.14433

The life-course demography of convict transportation to Van Diemen’s Land

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 10-12-2019

DOI: 10.1080/1081602X.2019.1691621

Silent witnesses: Child health and well-being in England and Australia and the health transition 1870–1940

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 06-2009

DOI: 10.5172/HESR.18.1.25

Climate change and population policy: towards a just and transformational approach

Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)

Date: 25-05-2010

DOI: 10.1093/PUBMED/FDQ041

Struggletown: Public and Private Life in Richmond 1900-1965.

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Date: 03-1987

DOI: 10.2307/2070678

Mothers' Health and Babies' Weights: The Biology of Poverty at the Melbourne Lying-in Hospital, 1857-83

Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)

Date: 04-2003

DOI: 10.1093/SHM/16.1.39

Abstract: Birth weight remains a major focus of medical research into the relationship between pre-natal growth and life course health, and historians have used mean birth weight to assess women's standard of living. However, there are intrinsic difficulties in inferring maternal health and nutritional status from birth weight, and some of the known data sets produce puzzling results. One rich data set comes from the Melbourne Lying-in Hospital, 1857-83, and the article discusses the complex institutional, social, and economic causes that may underlie its apparently counter-intuitive anthropometric results. This data set reveals the biological effects differential social conditions can inflict, even within an otherwise affluent society.

Sex and Suffering. Women's Health and a Women's Hospital: The Royal Women's Hospital Melbourne 1856-1996

Publisher: JSTOR

Date: 1998

DOI: 10.2307/40111323

Building a life course dataset from australian convict records: Founders & survivors: Australian life courses in historical context, 1803–1920

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Date: 2015

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-19884-2_14

Australian National University

Location: Australia

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Janet McCalman

Location: Australia

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Diggers To Veterans: Risk, Resilience And Recovery In The First AIF

Start Date: 2015

End Date: 2017

Funder: Australian Research Council

Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP110102368

Start Date: 2011

End Date: 06-2016

Amount: $510,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0209887

Start Date: 2002

End Date: 12-2005

Amount: $178,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment And Facilities - Grant ID: LE0560774

Start Date: 2005

End Date: 12-2005

Amount: $260,338.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0669580

Start Date: 07-2006

End Date: 03-2008

Amount: $24,650.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment And Facilities - Grant ID: LE0452798

Start Date: 2003

End Date: 12-2004

Amount: $376,066.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Special Research Initiatives - Grant ID: SR0354677

Start Date: 12-2003

End Date: 12-2004

Amount: $10,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP150100682

Start Date: 06-2015

End Date: 09-2019

Amount: $560,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Special Research Initiatives - Grant ID: SR0354503

Start Date: 01-2004

End Date: 06-2004

Amount: $10,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment And Facilities - Grant ID: LE0668026

Start Date: 02-2006

End Date: 02-2007

Amount: $350,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0558298

Start Date: 2005

End Date: 12-2008

Amount: $221,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0771033

Start Date: 2007

End Date: 12-2011

Amount: $800,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment And Facilities - Grant ID: LE0882889

Start Date: 07-2008

End Date: 12-2010

Amount: $150,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0560523

Start Date: 07-2005

End Date: 12-2010

Amount: $216,592.00

Funder: Australian Research Council