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Chadwick's sanitary report linked filth to early death

The 1842 survey of British towns showed labourers dying far younger than gentry Edwin Chadwick's Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population, published in 1842, assembled evidence that overcrowding, bad drainage and dirty water killed people young. It sold tens of thousands of copies and pushed Parliament toward sewers, street cleansing and a national public health board. Chadwick's own belief in miasma, disease spread by bad air, was wrong but his practical remedies helped. It sits in Mondo's history collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: The 1842 survey of British towns showed labourers dying far younger than gentry. The figure is taken from UK National Archives, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a history fact?: Yes. It sits on the History shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.