now, you are putting the blame
on the catholic church,
but there was a church of ireland,
a protestant home, bethany,
and that similarly
had very high rates.
it did, in ireland, and it seems
to have aped the catholic homes
in ireland, which is
kind of bizarre.
it would suggest it was a problem
of society, rather than the church.
well, i can‘t really speak
for exactly what was going
on in the protestant bethany home.
but a great deal of research has
been done into that home
by derek leinster
from the bethany group.
it‘s comparable with what happened
in the catholic homes,
but it seems to have
been unique to ireland.
even with these infant mortality
rates, you are talking
about going back to the ‘20s.
yes.
i mean, that was at a time
when there weren‘t antibiotics,
when they weren‘t vaccinations.
and when those come in,
the mortality rate drops
dramatically.
well, yes and no.
the mortality rate dropped
dramatically in ireland
from the late ‘iios onwards,
but that coincided with the...