Infant and childhood mortality is an aspect of history which is commonly overlooked . Many 19 th century cemeteries in the U . S are populated with children ' s graves which indicates that these families were wealthy enough to provide for marked graves . If the wealthy suffered from drastically high childhoodinfant mortality as the high number of marked graves indicate , imagine the number of unmarked graves from families who could not afford the luxury of a stone marker . Modern medicine may not be perfect , but the alternative is clearly unacceptable . You don ' t have to look back in time very far to see why . <| sep |> As someone who lives in the south , I know Every time I ' m up north I hear about it lol . HOWS EVERYTHING IN NORTHERN MASS HARDY HAR HAR