A report on health inequality was released on a bank holiday, with 260 copies
In 1980 a working group led by Sir Douglas Black found that, three decades into the NHS, death rates for men in the lowest social class were twice those in the highest, and the gap was widening. It blamed economic inequality. The new government published it on the August bank holiday with only 260 copies, but the Black Report became a landmark in research on health inequalities.