Very useful discussion. One issue which is very evident here in the North East and I would guess affects other post-industrial locales is that you can find wards which now have a middle class population but have lots of premature mortality because suburbanization has inserted new middle class housing estates into former coal mining areas where older males are dying young (i.e. in 60s) because of industrial exposures. Of course the new middle class are quite often miners' children but you do see a disproportionate effect if industrial disease is an important element in relation to premature mortality and hence life expectancy. Same thing will go for chemicals, steel, anything around asbestos and indeed for female industrial exposures as well in locales where women worked in mucky industries.
David Byrne
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