• @[email protected]
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    631 month ago

    I don’t disagree with your overall point, but statistics like that are almost always heavily skewed because of high infant mortality rates

    • snooggums
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      251 month ago

      The mortality rate during childbirth was pretty high for women on top of the infant rate. Childbirth as a whole dragged the numbers down.

      • @[email protected]
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        51 month ago

        The mortality of mothers only became a big issue between doctors being in charge of birth and hand washing becoming a rule

        • @[email protected]
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          41 month ago

          The domestication of storks has also led to fewer deaths upon delivery. I wish to also add something to this thread of reddit factoids.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 month ago

      18th century france is also quite possibly the single worst place and point in time to use as a comparison, there’s a reason people beheaded monarchs.