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>lots of kids died in the 1800s because of disease
People seem to forget this all the time. Forget about historical literacy, learn SCIENTIFIC HISTORY.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_antibiotics
Note, that we didn't even have decent broad spectrum antibiotics until the 1940s. Kids died all the time back them. Soap and keeping things clean (including working sewage systems) improved things a lot, but even rich kids died from shit like tuberculosis or polio back then.
