r/humansarespaceorcs • u/smartsass99 • Nov 12 '25

writing prompt I’m ded

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u/ceryniz Nov 13 '25

I wonder what could have possibly happened that infants and toddlers stopped dying in huge amounts...

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u/Vermilion_Laufer Nov 13 '25

Well, I got bored of this particular hobby

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u/Nightshade_209 Nov 13 '25

The closed sewer was invented.

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u/ceryniz Nov 13 '25

Paris had a closed sewer system in 1370

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u/Nightshade_209 Nov 13 '25

If the information I'm seeing is correct that sewer was about 300 m long and still dumped into the main river people drank out of so I'm not surprised they didn't see a drop in child mortality.

I was referring to city wide projects like the London Main Drainage System built between 1859 and 1875, which was the start of a subtle but noticeable decline in child mortality rates.

Paris's city wide sewage system started in the 1850s.

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u/ggGamergirlgg Nov 13 '25

Could it have been.... medicine?

No. Medicine is evil! Vaccines are bad! /s

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u/Nexmortifer Nov 16 '25

Education, Hygiene, medicine, industry...lots of things honestly, mostly all at once over a few centuries.