This work examines mortality among young children in the period from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. The sources of information used in this study include memoirs, diaries, poems, church records and numerical accounts. Additional sources for the nineteenth century are two census-derived numerical indexes of the quality of life. Introduction.- Chapter 1. Housing as Quality of Life, Dublin 1798 1821.- Chapter 2. The Anthropometric Committee of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1875-1883.- Chapter 3. Mars and Hygeia: The Application of Victorian Army Data on Height to the Quality of Life in the British Population .- Chapter 4. ''The Great Contrast'': Factor Analysis Applied to Quality of Life in the Era of the Irish Famine (co-authored with Pickett, L.).- Chapter 5. Victorian Economic Change and Heights: a Note on Lagged Effects.- Chapter 6. Sons of St. Patrick: Quality of Life and Heights of Young Irish Males at Mid-Nineteenth Century. SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research