The Ghost of Christmas Past: health effects of poverty in London in 1896 and 1991

The fundamental relation between spatial patterns of social deprivation and spatial pattern of mortality is so robust that a century of change in inner London has failed to disrupt it.

Abstract

Contemporary patterns of some diseases have their roots in the past. The fundamental relation between spatial patterns of social deprivation and spatial patterns of mortality is so robust that a century of change in inner London has failed to disrupt it.