List of Tables.- List of Figures.- Introduction.- Chapter 1. Mortality.- Chapter 2. Quality of Life.- Chapter 3. Death of Children in the Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries.- Chapter 4. Children's Mortality in England and Wales, 1838 - 1902.- Chapter 5. Birth, Life, and Death in Dublin.- Chapter 6. Children's Mortality in Ireland 1864 - 1902. Chapter 7. Mortality Among Children.- References.-