The findings revealed the scale of overcrowding, and the descriptions from health specialists drew a vivid picture of the extreme filth and disease that resulted in widespread death. Dr William ...

Experts say the problems of crowded housing, insecure work and poor underlying health are echoing down the centuries. Here is that map of child deaths in the middle of the 19th Century.

The findings revealed the scale of overcrowding, and the descriptions from health specialists drew a vivid picture of the extreme filth and disease that resulted in widespread death. Dr William ...