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How the Mid-Victorians Worked, Ate, and Died

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    Image of eight workmen standing with shovels in at the Murston brickfields

    Figure 1. 'Moulders' at the Murston brickfields. The 'moulders' shaped clay into bricks, each man making close on 1,000 every hour for an 8½ hour day and a 58 hour week. One brickie is on record as having made 986,091 bricks between April and September.



    Figure 2. Causes of Death in England and Wales: 1880 and 1997. Reprinted from Charlton [24], vol. 2, p. 9.