hard work and poverty on the streets of Victorian London

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According to Street Life magazine, the man in the image was diagnosed with atrophy, a progressive shrinkage of muscles and nerve tissue, and spent nine months in St Thomas’s Hospital. He moved to several hospitals during his treatment.

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