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The only 'germ' I have a little knowledge of from that era is the pandemic 'Spanish Flu' that was doing the rounds, cutting survival rates to 20% or so.....



GT

Are you sure its 1915

Well I'll give Taff +3 for that.

It's certainly less that 10%.

However the reason is not The Spanish Flu -5

Taff -2.

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So what I really want to know is this:

In 1915, Henry Chapin began surveying orphanages and paediatric hospitals in America. He generated a truly horrifying statistic.

Infant mortality in 9/10 of these institutions was 100% by the age of just two years old.

My question is what was killing them?

Not CO2

I don't trust you.

And your wise not to. But I'm playing this one straight up. It doesn't require much embezzlement from me, this one.

Definitely Bob.

typhoid

typhoid mary was a worker in the care/medical industry

Typhoid?

Was it the beginnings of the fast food industry. Orphanages "farmed out" their children to the suppliers, where they were used, not as regular workers, but more as fill ins...........................pies, sausages and burgers?

what was killing them

malnutrition

Oddly enough it's not child labour or malnutrition.

Both of which were suspected but the children were well cared for by the standards of the time and fed and watered precisely in relative safety.

But they all died.

Why?

they were drained of blood due to flea infestation 24/7

Tuberculosis?

I could see how concentrating children together in orphanages might provide ideal conditions for it to spread like wildfire.

Tuberculosis.

Sorry ~KB.

No fleas.

malaria

scurvy

dysentry

cholera

mummps

measles

german measles

chicken pox

small pox

the pox

neumonic or beubonic plague

the flu

impetigo

scarlet fever

exema

Malaria

Dysentery

Cholera

Measles

Small Pox


Taff -25

He keeps going like the duracell bunny.

The flu

Taff -5

wheres me curly wig ?????