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State of PH in 1800 |
-Lots of factories -Back to back housing -No sewers -No fresh water -Slums for low paid workers -Toilets in the ground/cesspits -Bad for workers/poor |
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19th Century common diseases |
-Cholera: drinking water -Typhoid: drinking water -Typhus: spread by body lice -TB: contact -Pneumonia: infection of lungs |
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Why was it so bad? |
-Laissez faire government -Rate payers not wanting to pay more tax to help poor -People believed miasma caused illnesses so PH neglected |
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Edwin Chadwick |
-Wrote report on sanitary conditioms of labouring populations 1842. -Said rate payers should help pay to provide sewerage, clean water, medical officers etc.
-Hindered reform: argumentative + arrogant > people didnt want to argue with him. |
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William Farr |
-Made links with poverty, dirt and disease. -Showed how death rate higher for poor. -Shamed towns into improving PH |
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1848 PH Act |
-Not compulsory- Failed -Only 103 local boards of health set up. -Councils could have medicsk officers appointed. -If death rate high: towns could be forced to clean up. -Tax could be collected if 10% rate payers agreed |
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1875 PH Act |
-Compulsory: Successful - Local councils to provide ckean water, public toilets, drains+sewers. -Councils to appoint medicsm officers -Regular sanitary/medical inspections -Illegal to build shoddy slum housing. |
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1875 Artisan & Labourers Dweings Improvement Act |
-Local councils buy slums> buikd better qyality w/ water + sewage disposal. -Chamberlain (mayor of birmingham) got council to buy slums + rebuild. Improved water supplies (used some of his own money) |
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1876 Rivers pollutions prevention act |
-Limited sewage in river allowed (which were used for drinking water). |
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1875 Food and drugs act |
-Shop keeperd not allowed to adulterate (add other ingrediants to) food. |
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Late 19th century |
-Model villages improved PH : by phikanthropist industrialists. cadbury family-Bournville lever family- built port sunlight. -healthy place for workforce. Quality housing ckean water sewage system gardens schools medicak care. |
