Six children ... However, the Victorian housing stock was often in very poor repair, had inadequate sanitation and homes were often over-crowded. As a consequence, these slums became the breeding ...

Victorian novels chronicle the terrible grief of losing children. Depicting the cruelty ... of a 3-year-old from typhoid fever in a London slum contaminated by an open cesspool.

The rats, they're all over the place, they have eaten the children's clothes ... After World War 2, the mainly Victorian accommodation of Glasgow and many other UK cities posed serious problems ...