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Bethany Brookshire (beebrookshire@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 02:35:48 JST Bethany Brookshire

This is something we really don't think about enough: Victorian novels are full of children dying.
FULL of them. Full of diseases that we can now prevent with sanitation and pasteurization and vaccines!
And we wanna go back WHY? https://theconversation.com/infectious-diseases-killed-victorian-children-at-alarming-rates-their-novels-highlight-the-fragility-of-public-health-today-242273
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  Infectious diseases killed Victorian children at alarming rates — their novels highlight the fragility of public health today
  
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  Between 40% and 50% of children didn’t live past 5 in the US during the 19th century. Popular authors like Charles Dickens documented the common but no less gutting grief of losing a child.

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