Age in context

[Sympthsical]

4. Not really how life expectancy worked back then

If you managed to live past much higher infant mortality and childhood illnesses, you had a reasonable expectation of making it decently far, particularly if you were wealthy and not part of the laboring classes.

You get those low numbers because infant mortality could be 25% or higher and children died often. When you average it all out, it's low. But, if you made it to adulthood and weren't living in an open sewer, your life span wasn't going to be super crazy different than it is today. Lower, but not 50s. If you look at a list of Presidents, you'll see a lot of them in the 19th Century made it to their 70s, excepting Super Wonder Harrison, some assassinations, alcoholism, and cancer.

Money always makes a difference.