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A dead child lying in its coffin, photographed in Röra parish at the beginning of the 20th century. Photo privately owned.
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Diaries can provide a micro-perspective on people’s way of life andthe world of conceptualization in a local society, and also on the changes that took place in the years that the diaries were written. This can be considered micro-history. While conducting fieldwork for the research project “Cultural contacts in Bohuslän’s coastal rural communities...
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... caused in fact the most deaths in Sweden in the latter half of the 1800s. The mortality rate was more than 30% of those infected. According to the parish records of deaths and funerals, 67 people died in Röra in 1870, 33 of whom died of scarlet fever between 10 May and 6 October. These were chil- dren ranging in age from three months to 14 years (Fig. 5). Only three of them were more than 10 years old (GLA Röra F 1). No cause of death was listed for the other 34 persons who died in this same ...
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