Read this quote from Walter Rauschenbusch. “The preventable decimation of the people is social murder.” Rauschenbusch believed that

“Preventable decimation” means that many people were dying from causes that could have been avoided. Rauschenbusch called this “social murder,” blaming social conditions that harmed the poor and less fortunate. So the best answer is that many less fortunate people became ill and died unnecessarily.

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