On the issue of causes of mortality crises. The use of matching and inverse probability weighting to analyze mortality in 19th century southern Sweden • Tommy Bengtsson, Lund University ; Göran RA Broström, Umeå University

Houses and individuals in Udine during the cholera outreach of 1836. A geo-referenced analysis with micro-level data • Marco Breschi, Università degli Studi di Sassari ; Alessio Fornasin, Università degli studi di Udine ; Matteo Manfredini, Università degli Studi di Parma

'A pestilence stalks abroad': familial and geographic clustering of deaths during the Tasmanian scarlet fever, measles and influenza epidemics of 1852–54 • Rebecca Kippen, Australian National University

Risk factors of measles mortality in a historical population: New France, 1714-15 • Ryan M Mazan, University of Western Ontario