PEDIATRICS Vol. 43 No. 3 March 1969, pp. 437
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WHAT CHILDREN IN 1844 READ ABOUT THEIR LIFE EXPECTANCY IN A WIDELY USED SCHOOLBOOK OF THAT PERIOD

T. E. C. Jr. M.D.

In Mrs. Jane Taylor's popular, small, paperback schoolbook entitled, Physiology for Children, the length of life in the 1800's was given as follows:

Do most people live to be old? No, one half die before they are eight years old. Only one out of three lives to fourteen, and but one in four lives to see twenty-one.1