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		userbinator on Aug 1, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Restaurant prices in the 19th and 20th centuries (... You might think the food is more healthy, but life expectancy in the 1800s tells a very different story: https://www.infoplease.com/us/health-statistics/life-expecta... Advances in medicine probably contributed more to that, however.

ipaddr on Aug 1, 2021 [–]

Washing hands, not working in a mill or mine or smelting place would be huge factors. Lower child births death is probably the biggest.

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