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Health and Hygiene in the Victorian Era COVE

(6 days ago) WEBHealth and Hygiene in the Victorian Era. The 19th century was a period of both innovation and devastation in the public sphere of health and hygiene. During this time, the average life expectancy for the middle-class man was 45 years, and half as …

https://editions.covecollective.org/content/health-and-hygiene-victorian-era

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Florence Nightingale overcame the limits set on proper Victorian …

(8 days ago) WEBDuring Victorian times, the need for public health nurses to care of the sick in these institutions, and during the 1860s she called for the abolition of England’s …

https://theconversation.com/florence-nightingale-overcame-the-limits-set-on-proper-victorian-women-and-brought-modern-science-and-statistics-to-nursing-225252

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Health and Hygiene in the Nineteenth Century - The …

(3 days ago) WEBIn the 1830s and the 1840s there were three massive waves of contagious disease: the first, from 1831 to 1833, included two influenza epidemics and the initial appearance of cholera; the second, from 1836 …

https://victorianweb.org/science/health/health10.html

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Child malnutrition: lessons from the Victorian age

(4 days ago) WEBSkeletal analysis of children from 19th century Leeds, Yorkshire showed a high number of severe cases of deficiency diseases such as rickets and scurvy, indicating severe malnutrition. This also

https://theconversation.com/child-malnutrition-lessons-from-the-victorian-age-142093

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The life of the poor in Victorian England COVE

(6 days ago) WEBDuring the Victorian era, the rates of people living in poverty increased drastically. This is due to many factors, including low wages, the growth of cities (and …

https://editions.covecollective.org/chronologies/life-poor-victorian-england

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A Picture of Health - Timeline - National Portrait Gallery

(1 days ago) WEBThe Victorian period was a time of extraordinary change. Key scientific discoveries, changes in understanding about the human body and reform of housing, health and education transformed people’s lives and greatly …

https://www.npg.org.uk/learning/a-picture-of-health/timeline/

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An unsuitable and degraded diet? Part one: public health lessons …

(3 days ago) WEBIn this series we seek to improve comprehension of this reality through an exploration of the mid-Victorian diet and public health profile. Much is made today of …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2408622/

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Victorians: Food & Health English Heritage

(5 days ago) WEBBeer was by far the most popular drink in Victorian England. In 1900 annual consumption per head was 32.5 gallons. Although it was weaker than beer today – 1% to 3.5% proof …

https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/learn/story-of-england/victorian/food-and-health/

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Voices of the Victorian Poor - The National Archives

(5 days ago) WEBVoices of the Victorian Poor is an open database of letters from paupers, the wider poor and their advocates written between 1834 - 1900. Document One – Barnsley Times ; Document Two – Sarah Hemming’s …

https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/voices-of-the-victorian-poor/

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Beneath the Surface: A Country of Two Nations - BBC

(6 days ago) WEBThe cells, dayroom and workyard have been refurbished, and with a Hard Times Gallery of images, this museum gives a unique picture of the reality of the Poor …

https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/bsurface_01.shtml

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Medicine and Public Health during the Victorian Era

(7 days ago) WEBMedicine and Public Health during the Victorian era (1837 – 1901) were paradoxically both progressive and conservative. Despite the developing studies during the first of half of …

https://victorian-era.org/medicine-public-health-victorian-era.html

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Poverty, Inequality And Health In Britain, 1800–2000: A Reader

(2 days ago) WEBFor example, Davey Smith et al.'s work on the correlation between Booth's poverty map and twentieth century adult mortality assumes that late nineteenth century …

https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/31/3/703/629804

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Cholera in Victorian London Science Museum

(6 days ago) WEBIn 1848, The Times described cholera as 'the best of all sanitary reformers', and Chadwick was appointed to the first Board of Health and became the Sanitary Commissioner of London. In the course of his investigations into the living conditions of the poor, Chadwick became interested in the problem of sanitation.

https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/medicine/cholera-victorian-london

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Victorian Health Reform - The National Archives

(3 days ago) WEBIn 1867, the government increased its efforts and made it compulsory for all children under the age of 14 to be vaccinated against smallpox. However, this was not the case for …

https://cdn.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/education/victorian-health-reform.pdf

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Disease, Death, and Life Expectancy in the Victorian Era

(8 days ago) WEBThe hygienic revolution extended into the Victorian home, where by the 1870s, in the proverbial phrase, cleanliness was next to godliness. (40) The hygienic …

https://brewminate.com/disease-death-and-life-expectancy-in-the-victorian-era/

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Public Health in Nineteenth-Century Britain - The Victorian Web

(Just Now) WEBVictorian Attitudes towards Health. The Creation of Boards of Health. The Physical Deterioration of the Textile Workers. Health & Victorian Criticism. Women & …

https://victorianweb.org/science/health/

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Disability and the Perpetually Unwell Woman in Late Victorian …

(4 days ago) WEB‘Perfect health is a blessing to all, but it means even more to women than men.’ [1] Eminent Victorian doctor Thomas Smith Clouston’s statement implied that …

https://womenshistorynetwork.org/disability-and-the-perpetually-unwell-woman-in-late-victorian-medical-literature/

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Poor & Pregnant in Paris: Strategies for Survival in the Nineteenth

(2 days ago) WEBDonald Reid; Poor & Pregnant in Paris: Strategies for Survival in the Nineteenth Century. By Rachel G. Fuchs (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University

https://academic.oup.com/jsh/article/27/3/621/932682

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Dying too young: Maps show little has changed in 170 years

(2 days ago) WEBHealthcare in the UK has vastly improved since Victorian times, yet the geography of coronavirus deaths closely follows the pattern of poor health in the 19th Century.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-57730353

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Victorian homelife - BBC Bitesize

(2 days ago) WEBFlats were crowded and small. In 1861, 64% of Scotland's population lived in either a single-end (one room) or room and kitchen (two rooms). Up to 15 people might live in a single …

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zxwxvcw/articles/zbrj47h

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A Commotion in the Blood - The New York Times Web Archive

(7 days ago) WEBLike street sweepers tidying up after a nuclear holocaust, doctors plied her with large amounts of digitalis and as much brandy as she could stomach. By January 20, the end …

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/h/hall-commotion.html

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Victorian Food For The Rich & Poor Children

(5 days ago) WEB3: Poor children had few food luxuries and ate poor food. The rich however would be well fed every morning and would have extra luxuries accessible. 4: The level of meat ratio at …

https://victorianchildren.org/victorian-food/

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Victorian Children in Victorian Times and How They Lived

(8 days ago) WEBThe poor Victorian Children lived a very different life than the children of wealthier families. They didn’t have the nice houses to live in or the extravagant toys, clothes or fine foods that the rich kids had. They lived in much smaller houses or even single rooms. Living in these tight quarters caused the family to be much closer.

https://victorianchildren.org/victorian-children-in-victorian-times/

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Site of New Hospital Disputed - The New York Times

(8 days ago) WEBF. Douglas Wert, hospital administrator, declared that it;would cost $11.5‐million to erect a proposed 200‐bed hospitid on the North Bergen site, …

https://www.nytimes.com/1974/09/22/archives/site-to-new-hospital-disputed-specialists-committed-a-fancy.html

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Why Britain is the world’s worst on homelessness - Financial Times

(3 days ago) WEBThe disruption of being moved from place to place causes adults to drop out of work and children out of school. In the past five years alone, the parlous state of …

https://www.ft.com/content/24117a03-37c2-424a-97ed-6a5292f9e92e

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Victorian Society to present program on Newark

(1 days ago) WEBThe Victorian Society in America Northern New Jersey Chapter will present Newark, New Jersey: City of Silver and Gold at 8 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 16 at the Montclair Women’s

https://www.newjerseyhills.com/the_progress/lifestyles/victorian-society-to-present-program-on-newark/article_e179e8c0-ccde-508e-9428-f113f10f7b28.html

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Increasing rates of teen sexual assault could be contributing to …

(1 days ago) WEBIt is backed up by data from the Australian Survey of Secondary Students and Sexual Health which shows that between 2002 and 2021, the percentage of Year 10 …

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-23/teen-sexual-assault-mental-health-problems/103873228

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How Bad Are Ultraprocessed Foods, Really? - The New York Times

(4 days ago) WEBUltraprocessed foods are clearly linked to poor health. But scientists are only beginning to understand why. Calorie restriction and intermittent fasting both increase …

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/06/well/eat/ultraprocessed-foods-harmful-health.html

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