They died of almost the same thing before and after the Great Depression. Distressed bankers and stockbrokers committed suicide by jumping off the building where they worked. Some people may starve to death because they have no money or can't buy food. Some people in the midwest died of silicosis by inhaling dust caused by sandstorms. This is very similar to the "black lung disease" that miners suffer from inhaling coal dust. There is a huge sandstorm, which is constantly exposed to the mud flying in the air and basically sucked into the lungs like breathing sand. In addition, because of the fierce sandstorm, you can hardly see it. In this case, people may get lost outside and die a few feet away from home. I'm sure that people die of poor health because they can't afford the medical expenses of diagnosing simple and curable diseases. The 1930s was a different era. At that time, most of the population was rural, so there were problems of medical inconvenience and food shortage, but most people were short of money and could not afford goods and services. They must save money for everything. If you can't afford something, you must either wait until you can afford it, or exchange it with someone, or usually don't buy it. As a result, there is a problem of lack of medicine and medicine, but most people are short of money, so they can't buy goods and services. They must save money for everything. If you can't afford something, you must either wait until you can afford it, or exchange it with someone, or usually don't buy it. As a result, there is a problem of lack of medicine and medicine, but most people are short of money, so they can't buy goods and services. They must save money for everything. If you can't afford something, you must either wait until you can afford it, or exchange it with someone, or usually don't buy it.
In addition, life expectancy is much lower than today. We now hope to live to be over 70 years old, but due to unsafe working conditions at that time, it is more common for people to die in their forties, fifties and sixties, which is illegal today. Cars don't have seat belts, so people are often thrown out of cars in accidents, which usually means certain death. The proportion of smokers at that time was higher than today. I didn't know the influence of smoking at that time. Until1early 1960s, surgeons released a report, which finally proved that the incidence of heart attack, stroke and cancer in smokers was higher than that in non-smokers. Medicine is far less complicated than it is today. People who died of diseases in the past can be treated by changing their diet and lifestyle, not to mention the drugs and operations available today that were not available during the Great Depression. Major examples of this include polio and tuberculosis. At the end of 1950s, polio vaccine came out, and antibiotics can also be used to treat tuberculosis and other infections. Coronary artery bypass surgery and organ transplantation are often performed today, but they were unknown in the 1930s. Generally speaking, there were countless ways to die at that time, and the poor economy didn't help. Compared with the Great Depression, so much progress has been made in the past 80 to 90 years that people today live longer and healthier lives. However, people today still die of accidents, mistakes and lack of good judgment, just like many years ago.