But We Live Longer Today

Mothers were nutritionally and immunologically debilitated and passed those weaknesses to their children. The meager and often toxin-laden diet they consumed did not make for the highest quality milk for the child either. As society advanced into the Victorian era, women found nursing inconvenient or just plain did not have time due to the daily drudgery. The advice they got from the health experts of the time was to feed children the following recipe: baked flour, bread crumbs, a little sugar, and water boiled for up to five hours. They would feed this through a calf 's teat stretched over a bottle and used for a "fortnight" (ten days). Couple these circumstances with the total lack of public utilities and hygiene in an increasingly congested society and it's no wonder infant death was astronomically high. Infant death was also a natural mechanism to decrease the drain on resources. In a similar fashion, wild animals will not reproduce or will produce stillbirths if the mothers are starving. High infant mortality was a part of life back then. It was not because the peasants could not whisk children off to the ER and ICU. The average life span number that is increasing and being credited to medical advances is the average age at death of the entire population. If there is a population of two, and one dies at one year of age and the other at 80, then the average life span for that population is about 40. In pre-modern populations, early deaths for adults and infants, for the reasons cited above, would make the average lifespan very low.

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