Discovery of children’s bodies reveals an insight into Leeds’s grim past
Discovery of children’s bodies reveals an insight into Leeds’s grim past
Friday 20 May 2016
IT is a fascinating look into a more grim side to Leeds’s past - all but missing entirely from the history books.
Poverty so severe that some children were barely expected to live beyond 18 months.
But now, archaeologists and scientists are helping us to uncover a side of Leeds that is very different to the cosmopolitan city we know today - and one that could even help the shape modern medicine.
Excavations at the site where the £165m Victoria Gate shopping centre is taking shape recovered at least 28 bodies, many of them children, buried in the grounds of what was the Ebenezer Chapel between 1797 and 1848.
Micro-analysis of bones and teeth have shown that nine of the 12 children had metabolic diseases, including rickets, scurvy and possibly anaemia - and some of those buried could have been taken in a cholera outbreak in the area in 1832.
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