mike wilson wrote: >> From: "P. J. Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: 2008/04/09 Wed PM 08:43:22 GMT >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: Pulitzer >> >> I'm not sure what you mean by "more and more present", but really the >> reason this is such a tragedy is that is so unusual for a relatively >> young healthy woman to die prematurely. From the 1840's, when good >> record keeping became a general to about 1910 statistics show that young >> women were very vulnerable to typhus, cholera, child birth, small pox it >> was truly horrible, popular songs reflected just that, "Listen to the >> Mocking Bird", which was adopted by the 3 Stooges, actually find the >> words and read them. . There was a culture of death or rather dealing >> with death throughout the Victorian Age. If you go to any relatively >> old cemetery you should count the headstones of you woman who died in >> their late teens to early thirties. The numbers are sometimes >> astounding. We should mourn the loss of this young woman, but be very >> thankful it happens so much less frequently today. >> > > >>> http://www.prestongannaway.com/main.php >>> > > If you look in other parts of the world, you may find that the rates are as > bad as they ever were. > Actually they're not. Worse than Europe, North America, Japan, etc. But still much better than they were back then. There have been up ticks in recent years of particular diseases in particular places, Russian has showed an increase in overall mortality, though the question becomes is that just honest reporting for a change. Hell there used to be times when cholera stalked the streets of major cities, so regularly there were "cholera" seasons, even New Orleans had one. The old diseases just don't kill as effectively as they used to. Certainly not young mothers otherwise there wouldn't be major population increases in most third world countries. > > ----------------------------------------- > Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email > Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam > > >
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