SO A report has come out saying if that you are born in the affluent south life expectancy is 90, whereas if are born in the north it is 79.
A report in 1842 by Edwin Chadwick found that the average age Liverpool for gentlemen/professionals in Liverpool was 35, tradesmen 22 and labourers/servants 15.
In Rutland, a rural county which is no more, gentlemen/ professionals lived to 52, tradesmen to 41 and labourers/servants to 38.
This is only some of the differences.
It shows social class a big factor in who had longer lives.
It also quotes the high infant mortality in the cities: in Manchester, of children born into working-class families, more than 57 per cent died before they were five. People live longer nowadays but in the long run nothing has changed, except we now have the NHS and long may it last.
Maureen Robinson, Broadway, York.
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