Poor housing and dark satanic mills

Articles in The BMJ this week featuring mills and housing may seem like a throwback, but the problems they raise, from science to social welfare, are very contemporary. The impact of the cost of living crisis is clear for health professionals to see, and, where once poor laws offered relief to people who were disadvantaged, recent law making and spending plans will not do enough for people feeling the “consequences of creaking public services in a nation getting poorer” (doi:10.1136/bmj.o2837).1