Place, Disease and Mortality: Trimble County, Kentucky 1849-1894

• Main Author: Demaree, Nancy
• Format: Others
• Published: TopSCHOLAR® 2000
• Subjects: Place; disease; death; environment; specific populations; females; infants; slave/Black; site; situation; human/land interaction; cultural baggage.; Geography; History; Race and Ethnicity; United States History
• Online Access: http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/716; http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1719&context=theses

This researcher describes the characteristics of place...physical, cultural and human...of a small Kentucky county and looks at the incidence of disease and dying that occurred in that place in the last half of the nineteenth century. The impact of death on particular subsets of the general population was given a closer evaluation. Very young, females and the slave/Black communities were investigated individually. The overall site and situation of all aspects of Trimble County, Kentucky were viewed in an effort to support the notion that it is the manner in which man interacts with this environment that causes disease and death and that is not the environment itself that destroys human life.