Britain To DTM

Question 1

Stage 1?

Answer 1

Prior to agricultural revolutions birth rates high and families large
High birth rates cancelled out by diseases epidemics
Infant mortality high so population stable

Question 2

Stage 2?1750-1880

Answer 2

Fall in death rates due to improved food supply, sanitation and hygiene, disease reduced
Birth rates high due to lack of contraception, children seen as workers

Question 3

Stage 3? 1880-1940

Answer 3

Fall in death rates due to medical advances - 1907 training for midwives and 1929 penicillin
Fall in birth rates due to education, children no longer allowed to work and more woman in workforce

Question 4

Stage 4?1940 - present

Answer 4

Death rates level out due to national health service

Birth rates fall due to 1960 birth control pill, woman’s status and social change