My contrarian brain was ready to mount an argument but, well, yes. Yes to all the things that you said. The average life expectancy of the period was heavily based on stillborn and infant mortality.
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It gives a frankly wacky idea of what an alderman would be. Gary, in his thirties, would not be the wiseman of the town.
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There were a lot more death sentences before modern medicine. Getting a really nasty wound and not being able to get someplace to clean it out could be the end. But yes, obviously infant and mother mortality were the biggest stat swingers with epidemics in towns/cities coming next.
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