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Infectious diseases killed Victorian children at alarming rates — their novels highlight the fragility of public health today

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In the first half of the 19th century , between 40% and 50% of children in the U.S. didn’t live past the age of 5.

Modern medicine has enabled citizens of wealthy, industrialized nations to forget that children once routinely died in shocking numbers.

Tuberculosis killed an estimated 1 in 7 people in Europe , smallpox killed 80% of the children it infected.

In 1856 , Archibald Tait , then headmaster of Rugby and later Archbishop of Canterbury , lost five of his seven children in just over a month to scarlet fever.

Scarlet fever is now generally curable with a 10-day course of antibiotics.

Researchers warn that recent outbreaks demonstrate we cannot relax our vigilance against contagion.

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