Historical Births, Birth Rates, & Infant Mortality, 1920 – 2003
Los Angeles Countyyear: 1940 births: 42,856 birthrate: 15.1 deaths: 1,482 rate: 34.6
year:1930 births: 33,008 birthrate:14.8 deaths:1,738 rate: 52.7
year:1920 births: 18,009 birthrate:18.0 deaths:1,326 rate: 73.6
here’s another:
In the upper-class areas Liverpool England, 1899, 136 newborns out of 1000 would die before they reached the age of one. Working class districts maintained a rate of 274 infant deaths per 1000 births, and impoverished slums had a horrifying 509 infant deaths per 1000.
So the reason there’s no word for it is that it was not that long ago that it was by and large assumed that everyone had lost a child.