Discovering Local History 

Health in Stoke-on-Trent

 

Late Twentieth Century

 

Although, living conditions have improved beyond recognition in the twentieth-century, life expectation in the Potteries is still low by national standards.

Infant mortality remains stubbornly high and premature deaths from heart disease and lung cancer are well above the national average.

 

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