Ignore facts like:
(1) Ireland, especially western Ireland, was grindingly poor from 1925-1961. Very few Irish were "well-nourished" by modern standards in those years.
(2) Infant mortality and childhood diseases were higher and more devastating now that they were then. There were no antibiotics. There was diphtheria, tuberculosis, and scarlet fever, and influenza, and whooping cough.
(3) Tuam was a rural area without electricity, modern plumbing, good roads, or modern health facilities.
(4) These children were abandoned by their families and raised in an understaffed orphanage for all intents and purposes.
Yet the reaction of people on this thread is: "Yo, why couldn't one of the sisters just pick up her iPhone and call the free clinic? All she needed to do was Uber an ambulance! And she should have gotten of FreshDirect and had some of those superhealthy Michelle Obama meals delivered!"
My great aunt grew up in Connaught in the 1930s. It was a third world country.
People trying to use this to make points against whatever their bête noir is really disheartening, and angering, to see happen here.
I agree with your post that Ireland was grindingly, hopelessly poor at that time and infant mortality was high for legitimate children as well as “illegitimate.” Even here in this country, two of my rural great-grandmothers each had many pregnancies and at least half of their children died — the Protestant one had eight and four died; the Catholic one had 16 and only 6 survived, with the youngest being raised by the eldest because she died giving birth to to last baby. Those were not unusual circumstances.