Mortality in example sentence
This exquisitely made film is a Victorian genre painting come to life.Mary Lennox is Thomas Cooper Gotch's "The child enthroned".The late 19th century middle and upper classes were obsessed by the idea of children and childhood,a preoccupation encouraged by the high infant/mother mortality rate due to paucity of medical knowledge and the lack of what today would be considered even the most basic hygienic practices.