Sardine Can Somers Town NW1
*Somers Town, StreetMap.co.uk
Planning on moving to NW1 postcode area?
Did you know that men living in Somers Town NW1 are dying 10 years earlier than their neighbours in leafy Hampstead NW3?!
Males in the ward of St Pancras NW1 and Somers Town NW1 have an average life expectancy of just 71 – the same as boys being born in the war-torn Palestinian West Bank. The cause of early death is insecurity, which makes people smoke, abuse alcohol, forget about exercise and diet, reports Camden Gazette 24.
Those less than 3 miles away in the ward of Hampstead NW3 are reaching the ripe old age of 81 – the same as boys being born in Macau, the Chinese territory that last year boasted the longest life expectancy in the world.
Labour councillor Roger Robinson, who represents St Pancras and Somers Town, says: “There are very high levels of deprivation, very high pollution, and very little parkland – the nearest is Regent’s Park. We only have one youth club and not much in the way of playgrounds.
Community campaigners say people’s health suffers because they are forced to live in cramped flats with barely any open space. “It’s difficult to see how people can develop, and then retire in a respectable manner, when they are living in a sardine can. There are families with two, three, four children in two-bedroom flats.
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