Re: [Cz-L] Life expectancy in Czernowitz around 1890

Not quite so. By 1920 the infant mortality was considerably lower.
Except for those children who died during the war in Transnistria,
I think that almost all infants survived to adulthood.

Still we are the lucky ones; either because we were not deported
to Transnistria, or because despite being deported, we survived.
I was a premature baby and in the days before incubators,
they put bottles of hot water around me. One of the bottles opened
and to this day I have burn scars, but I survived thanks to the use
of permanganate and the advice of Dr. Muniu Hacken.
Other children were in the care of Dr. Wiesenthal and if not all,
certainly most survived chickenpox, measles, Diphtheria and even Polio.

Baruch sh'higianu,

Mimi
On Nov 20, 2012, at 12:12 AM, HARDY BREIER wrote:

On 11/20/12 12:12 AM, "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET> wrote:

> So we , the surviving babies of the pre- war period, are the lucky ones.
> Filtered out , 2 out of 10 , for many generations we are the prime
> choice of nature.
> We have always known we were the best , now we also know how .
> Hardy
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Yossi Yagur" <yagury_at_netvision.net.il>
> To: <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 10:38 PM
> Subject: [Cz-L] Life expectancy in Czernowitz around 1890
>
>
>> Yes,
>> Very high infant mortality was common on those days. Few years ago I did
>> some work on the Kishinev archive - and got the same feeling. Many babies
>> died, even few days old, most of them due to Diarrhea.
>> Yossi Yagur
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