Abstract
Without any system of residence registration in England and Wales it is difficult to trace migration of individual families. In-migrants can be deduced from census returns, but following out-migrants from a particular place is more difficult. Using nominal record linkage, starting with vaccination registers, the families of a cohort of I,363 infants were followed in order to test the hypothesis that there may be a relationship between infant mortality and migration. This local study concludes that there is evidence to suggest that families who migrate suffer more infant deaths than those who remain in the same place for a number of years. Few studies link these two issues and much remains to be done to identify what factors in short-distance migration can have a negative effect on the well-being of infants.
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