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RE: Re: Ecologic Limitations
Otto,
I think you have to also consider questions like general health care and
sanitation, which probably reduced the average life expectancies to around
40 or 50. During the Civil War, for every man who died in combat, two died
from diseases like dysentery and measles. However, there is no question
that it they could make it, some did live into there 70s and 80s. Mark
Twain was 75 when he died.
-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
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-----Original Message-----
From: Otto G. Raabe [mailto:ograabe@UCDAVIS.EDU]
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 12:20 PM
To: Thomas J Savin ; Jim Muckerheide; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
Subject: RE: Re: Ecologic Limitations
At 08:10 AM 1/3/02 -0500, Thomas J Savin wrote:
>To all involved,
>
>I must confess that the statement below - is totally baffling to me. The
first question is what was the life expectancy in the late 1800's. Did
people live long enough to get lung cancer?
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January 3, 2002
Average life expectancy was much less in the 19th Century, but I believe
that was primarily because of the high rate of childhood deaths. Persons
who survived to adulthood frequently lived beyond 70 or 80, and had a life
expectancy not too much less than that of 20th Century adults.
Otto
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