Abstract

In the paper ‘An unsuitable and degraded diet? Part one: public health lessons from the
mid-Victorian working-class diet’ (
‘Improvements in adult life expectancy are discernable by the 1861 census, when figures show that by comparison with the 1841 figures, aged 50, twice as many men and women per 100,000 births had an average expectation of a further 20 years of life.8’
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