This could easily be attributed to a lack of diagnosis. Less than 70 years ago it was common for the official cause death to be “natural causes”, which was the default catch-all when the cause couldn’t be attributed to anything else. Not for lack of trying, we just didn’t have the technology and wealth of research and knowledge until fairly recently.
Go read the obituaries in the historic New York Times archives, it’s insane. Infants and children would die and best we could do was shrug it off and say “god works in mysterious ways” or some such bullshit.
Go read the obituaries in the historic New York Times archives, it’s insane. Infants and children would die and best we could do was shrug it off and say “god works in mysterious ways” or some such bullshit.