Did people live healthy lives in the 1800s?

Answer 1

Around age 70, the biblical "fourscore-and-ten." I have been spending time with several family trees on ancestry.com, and find that most people who achieved middle-age (40+) lived a bit past 80; unless they died of misadventure, or contracted Diabetes or another rapidly progressing disease. So this was Life Expectancy at 40, computed from a limited sample. (If we figured in dead babies/fetuses and early death in the hecatombs of the American Civil War, then Life Expectancy at Birth would come down enormously. But the resulting figure would be essentially meaningless because we'd be introducing fictitious and hypothetical elements.)

Answer 2

Life expectancy of the 1800's aye? That is actually tricky, since what most people call life expectancy is nothing but a median, the middle number taken of everyone born from 1800 to 1899 and tally all their ages together and then divide that number by everyone that was born.

Now the thing is infant life expectancy is what has improved a premature baby had a death sentence in that era,most, after they made it to ten- teen life are actually about the same, the addition of medical science has raised a unhealthy person from about 40 by a additional 12 -15 years on average, a healthy adult can now live to be 80-100, but then a healthy adult then wasn't far off either.

The problem arises later, here's a example. When you have a elderly person who falls and hurts their hip, in the 1800's the quality of life for this person would plummet horribly and discomfort and pain would take their toll and they would either be bed ridden or succumb to a infection from the area constantly rubbing.

So there is no straight answer. But statistically if you add everything mention together, the average person with the sick counted among the healthy and the infants counted among the adults, the average life span was approximately 40 years.

Answer 3

In the 1800s people died from Diseases, Severe winter storms, wars, murders. gettin shot, gettin stabbed, colds and other sicknesses

Answer 4

disease eg scarlet fever measles

unclean environment

no warmth

unclean water

hope this helps :)

why do you need to know ?

Answer 5

Women always take better care of themselves compared to man. Women work smarter not harder.

Answer 6

People didn't live very healthy lives back then since there was no medicine, no anti-biotic and they were not very healthy and hygienic.