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In response to "Call me doubtful that as many kids were dying of tuberculosis in 1996. -- nm" by Ender

garbage food, little heat, high flu rates, and serious beatings (sometimes fatal). It was never all from TB -- nm

Posted by zork Oct 6 '15, 12:23

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My point is, you can't shout "6-12% MORTALITY RATE!!!" and then try to compare that to modern institutions. - Ender Oct 6, 12:33 16
- Who did that? Other than someone else comparing to "projects" schools in the US - zork Oct 6, 13:04 11
  - "Can you imagine any school system in Canada or the US today having a 6-12% die-off every year?"- Beryllium Oct 6, 15:00 (26) -- nm* - Ender Oct 6, 13:06 10
    - We're talking about like 1908 though, right? -- nm - Ender Oct 6, 15:05 (17) -- nm - Ender Oct 6, 13:07 9
      - Nope -- nm - zork Oct 6, 15:06 (1) -- nm - Ender Oct 6, 13:08 8
        
        Nope, as in there was horrible shit happening for many decades after that, into the 70s at least. - zork Oct 6, 13:11 7
        
        Bery was certainly comparing it to modern school systems. -- nm - Ender Oct 6, 13:13 6
        
        "Can you imagine?" isn't really a comparison. And the mortality rates in these schools were a lot higher than the Canadian average for school children - Roger More Oct 6, 13:19 2
        
        Which is also an apples and oranges comparison, given that average school children don't go to residential schools. - Ender Oct 6, 13:22 1
        
        The point we are trying to get across is that we are talking about a population that has been disadvantaged for a long period of time. - Roger More Oct 6, 13:27
        
        I was saying it would be unconscionable in a modern school system. - Beryllium Oct 6, 13:16
        
        so reply to him. -- nm - zork Oct 6, 13:14 1
        
        I did, and then you kept replying to me. -- nm - Ender Oct 6, 13:20
- No, but the death rate at these schools was a lot higher than the death rate for school-aged children across Canada -- (link) - Roger More Oct 6, 12:41
- I'm going to say there was no time in the 18th through 20th century when that kind of mortality rate was normal for school-attending children. -- nm - Reagen Oct 6, 12:40 1
  - Yeah, same for the forced sterilization rates -- nm - Beryllium Oct 6, 12:41
- I'd be very interested in a comparison with the mortality rates of turn-of-the-century US & Canadian orphanages though. -- nm - Ender Oct 6, 12:37

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