The past really was a vile place, you know?
Barely over 100 years ago the age profile of the UK population was near enough a straight line triangle from 10 years to death: https://mdfs.net/Docs/Whitby/Census/1901/Ages1901.txt
Today it is near enough a flat horizontal: https://mdfs.net/Docs/Whitby/Census/2021/Ages2021.txt
What is amazing is that people just so much don't realise that this is abnormal - that until very very recently, CHILDREN DYING WAS NORMAL.
"In 2021 we expected 0.8 children to die per live birth. "
Citation needed there, I think!
You could be right
"This is the thing to remember about the past - it was an absolutely vile place."
The vileness of the present is catching up.
"Tom Brown's School Days" famously mentions an outbreak of diphtheria at Rugby in the 1830s. It isn't made to sound particularly unusual.
Indeed or the begjnning of Jane Eyre, based on the real life experiences of Charlotte losing two older sisters to tuberculosis.
Barely over 100 years ago the age profile of the UK population was near enough a straight line triangle from 10 years to death: https://mdfs.net/Docs/Whitby/Census/1901/Ages1901.txt
Today it is near enough a flat horizontal: https://mdfs.net/Docs/Whitby/Census/2021/Ages2021.txt
What is amazing is that people just so much don't realise that this is abnormal - that until very very recently, CHILDREN DYING WAS NORMAL.
"In 2021 we expected 0.8 children to die per live birth. "
Citation needed there, I think!
You could be right
"This is the thing to remember about the past - it was an absolutely vile place."
The vileness of the present is catching up.
"Tom Brown's School Days" famously mentions an outbreak of diphtheria at Rugby in the 1830s. It isn't made to sound particularly unusual.
Indeed or the begjnning of Jane Eyre, based on the real life experiences of Charlotte losing two older sisters to tuberculosis.