That is something like 1 1/2 fatalities per year. That hardly seems out of the norm for a troubled and dysfunctional population. How many were killed by other ‘children’ who were inmates? How many committed suicide? These people were just a younger segment of the same population that matriculated at Starke.
I attended a girls reformatory for 18 months in 1972. Nivory died. Kids don’t just die at this rate unless somthing spread thru the school like influenza.
I’m all for scientific autopsies.