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the nineteenth century through migration,
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because more people die in cities than are born there--why?
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Because of unhealthy quarters. The life expectancy
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in Lille, for example, was about nineteen-years-old,
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the same thing in Manchester.
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That includes infant mortality, so that's a little bit skewed;
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but, still, cities are unhealthy places.
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Old people, the miserably poor people also go to Paris to
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try to find charity and ultimately to die.
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Child abandonment, infanticide and all the things that
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I mentioned before--disease, the cholera disease rips through
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Paris in 1832 and 1849, again in 1884.