cycle tramp wrote: ↑13 Jan 2024, 4:17pm
Jdsk wrote: ↑13 Jan 2024, 3:59pm
cycle tramp wrote: ↑13 Jan 2024, 3:47pm
Nope... it was in a book from the library ages ago..
Yes, there were massive inequalities.
Unfortunately it appears that there still are, as cited upthread.
Jonathan
It's also worth remembering that figures both in the past and present are influenced my several major life steps and the care and treatment which is provided if things don't go to plan - things like being born and giving birth, not being injured in a work accident, or avoiding diseases, as well as treatment for any issues which are due to someone's DNA... there's probably some figures somewhere of the number of people trampled by horses whilst in Queen Victoria's London
Not that long ago (in Victorian & Georgian times) there were many death certificates or similar records stating, "Died of teeth". This covered a multitude of detailed death modes but fundamentally referred to the deader's inability to eat properly because of a serious mouth infection, as well as the spread of gob-rot jurms to various other critical body parts. The seriously rotted and diseased teeth were also an indication of a generally damaging life circumstance - although not always, as plenty of the well-orf had gob-rots too. (The slave-grown sugar in everything didn't help, especially with a lack of modern dental hygiene techniques).
Nowadays there is a serious increase in gob-rot due to essentially the same causes: poverty, sugar and self-indulgence or self-neglect in dietary habits. NHS dentistry is disappearing fast but the private variety is very expensive to unaffordable for many. We still have tons of sugar in every package of soopermurkit junkfud. The poor find themselves unable to achieve a full nutrition. Even the well-orf suffer from lives of self-indulgence, self-neglect and self-abuse. Add in also the various eating disorders emanating from cultural scarifying.
Humans, eh? We're so destructive and inept. "It's a wonder we can even feed ourselves". But of course, many can't, in one way or another.
Will "Died of teeth" become the new cancer? Bad toofs and associated gob-rots & plaques may already be a factor in many heart diseases and early dementias. And who knows what else.
PS for those who require "the data" - find it yourself.
“Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence are usually the slaves of some defunct economist”.
John Maynard Keynes