<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 06/12/2001 5:08:19 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
<BR>katrous@yahoo.com writes:
<BR>
<BR>
<BR><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Reading demographic history was pretty
<BR>boring, but some stuff I recall. Like 1/5 of all women
<BR>died because of childbirth, which obviously hapened in
<BR>the first half of a potential average life span. </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BR></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">
<BR>If you check the old cemeteries in this country, you will see the same thing
<BR>happening. Women in their late teens through early 40's were dropping like
<BR>flies. Women between their late 40's and early 60's rarely died. If you
<BR>survived childbirth, you had it made.
<BR>
<BR>Margherita la Tessatrice.</FONT></HTML>