During the 1880s and 1890s my grandfather's family lost 3 children, all to diphtheria. Two died during one week, it is said. Treatment was said to be gargling with kerosene.
These people lived near Vermillion, then Dakota Territory, along the Missouri River. The parents were both immigrants from Sweden.
So anyway back then, in order to have four survive until adulthood, seven were born.
"Anti" people are downright dangerous, as this family in Spain proves.