
Originally Posted by
Ausfree
Yeah, and they didn't live too long either!!!
My maternal grandparents and several of their younger children were living in a bark hut with an earth floor in what is now suburban Sydney in the 1920s. My grandfather died at the age of 98 in 1954. Not all died young! Many children died, but not primarily as a result of the standard of their housing, but mostly from infectious diseases that only slowly became rare, starting around 1900, from improvements in knowledge about disease that led to safer water supplies, improved sanitation, and perhaps most importantly, vaccination.
John
John
JDNSW
1986 110 County 3.9 diesel
1970 2a 109 2.25 petrol
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