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To: tejek who wrote (445289)1/6/2009 12:11:58 PM
From: combjelly  Respond to of 1572089
 
"You mean they were isolated from the rest of the population?"

It is where we get the word "ghetto". They were isolated in small, overcrowded urban enclaves and could only work certain trades. Given that germ theory is relatively new as is the concept of sanitation, diseases like TB were rampart.

Not that it was all that much better outside of the ghettos. Average life expectancy didn't significantly top 30 until the 1800s.