[PoetsOfTheFall]

See those little hands!

[lady bug]

My mother lost twin brother and sister from what they called consumption. They were 3 months old.

[Azimuth]

[hellgate9876]

to see any child die before his time.

[PunkNana66]

Most likely cholera or other infectious disease that makes eating and drinking difficult, such as diphtheria. The boy is seriously dehydrated and malnutritioned.

[Kerri]

There was also bad adulterated food, borax was routinely added to milk that had soured, plus the ersatz baby bottles available could not be adequately cleaned. They called themmurder bottles. I researched and did a paper on this in college. That soured milk lurking in the bottle nipples and in the milk itself carried a bovine form of TB that transferred easily to these poor kids. SadSOsad...

[Laurisa]

There were no vaccines or antibiotics in this era. Many children died.

[murofhsirgo]

That was a sad image