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Children of the Revolution: the rise of rickets in urban societies in 19th-century England (2016)
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In the late 18th- to early 19th-century England, the impact of the Industrial Revolution on health was experienced by both manufacturers and workers alike, as it both changed the roles played by workers and the environment of urban living. Many of these workers would have been children, often as young as 9 years old, who found employment in factories to supplement the family income. The impact of industrialisation on the nutritional health of adults has been found in evidence such as shrinking...