His 1842 Report on the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population concluded that much poverty and ill-health was caused by the terrible living conditions and not by idleness. It shocked ...

Waters were the interstate highways of the early 19th-century United States. Many Americans earned their living as farmers, and waterways provided an efficient means of getting crops to market.

This only made their health worse. An engraving depicting the interior of a Dorchester labourer's cottage in the early 19th century. Poor living conditions caused numerous health issues.

A recent study, published in the International Journal of Paleopathology, examined the skeletal remains of a child who lived in mid-19th-century France. The study revealed that the child had suffered ...

The Trump administration’s current use of 19th-century tools to solve 20th-century problems threatens to take America back to ...