Re:I am a New York City public high school student. The situ...
by iainmerrick on Saturday January 08, 2022 @08:45PM
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Do you have a citation for that? I’m not sure it’s correct (although I don’t have any links of my own handy either, sorry!)
My impression was that infant mortality was a great deal higher back then, but there wasn’t as big a disparity after that as people tend to assume. People didn’t hit old age in their 50s and 60s, they often lived into their 80s and beyond, just like today.
My impression was that infant mortality was a great deal higher back then, but there wasn’t as big a disparity after that as people tend to assume. People didn’t hit old age in their 50s and 60s, they often lived into their 80s and beyond, just like today.