The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #163884 Message #3914881
Posted By: Steve Shaw
03-Apr-18 - 08:23 AM
Thread Name: BS: On the cause of Famines
Subject: RE: BS: On the cause of Famines
"No car, no TV, no double glazing, no central heating, basic food still on rationing. But the population was far healthier."
Sure it was. We died far younger, half of us were smoking ourselves to death, heart disease was rife, we were still battling polio, measles and diphtheria, the infant mortality rate was much higher, we suffered frequent outbreaks of typhoid and smallpox and all our teeth fell out. Apart from all that, yeah, we were far healthier.