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Treatment for mental illness or nervous disorders had changed little since medieval times. Those sufferers lower down the social scale were locked up in County Asylums

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It was believed that bad smells caused disease. It was obvious; in poor districts, the air was foul and the death rate high. In the prosperous suburbs, no smells – therefore no disease.

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Children were lucky to survive their fifth birthdays. (The current life expectancy is around 80, and rising.)

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Middle class men might live, on average, to 45. The average lives of workmen and labourers spanned just half that time.

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 a time when diseases like smallpox, cholera and TB were insatiable.

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 a time when diseases like smallpox, cholera and TB were insatiable.