To: TheLooseThread
4% fatality means that a family of 5 has a 18% chance that one of the members will die.WHAT year would this rate-of-mortality bring us back to (insofar as 'catching' a life threatening disease "back then"):
A. 1950
B. 1900
C. 1860
D. 1776?
7 posted on
04/14/2003 6:07:29 PM PDT by
_Jim
( // NASA has a better safety record than NASCAR \\)
To: _Jim
I'm guessing A and the disease was polio. But, it's only a guess.
8 posted on
04/14/2003 6:11:16 PM PDT by
Dog Gone
To: _Jim
MCCCLII
44 posted on
04/14/2003 8:34:26 PM PDT by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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