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To: Original Mad Dog who wrote (4750)2/6/2003 4:08:15 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (1) of 7689
 
I wonder how many 90 year olds there were in America in the 1820's
That's what I thought when I saw the 1st line of ypour post. Not too many. Infant mortality was high, pulling down the average and median, but even those who got to adulthood had a hard row to hoe- -no antibiotics, no germ theory, no antisepsis, ...

Probably far fewer heart attacks because people on the average didn't live long enough nfor that to be a problem..
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