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OCR GCSE History-Paper Two: Demands for reform and reaction to these demands NEW FOR 2015!!!
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- 1DEMANDS FOR REFORM AND REACTION TO THESE DEMANDS.
- 2What did Edwin Chadwick investigate, and what action did he take?-Link between health and living conditions
-Suggested more housing, drainage, regular refuge collection...etc.
-A civil servant, so government supported hi sideas - 3What positive reactions did the work of Chadwick have?-Poor pleased with public improvements
-Government pleased with research done - 4What oppositions did Chadwick have?-Local councils didn't want change-not compulsory so only 50 local councils had medical officers
-The rich did not like paying for it - 5At roughly what time period were the Cholera epidemics?1830's to 1860's
(1831-1866, to be precise) - 6What did John Snow discover, and what action did he take?-All on Broad St had Cholera except Brewers
-Stopped use of water pump
-Bad water caused cholera - 7What opposition did Snow have and how was it solved?-People trusted miasma and spontaneous generation
-Once Pasteur's germ theory was accepted, the Government accepted that Cholera was water bourne - 8When was the Great Stink?1858
- 9What happened in the Great Stink?-Very hot summer
-Smell so overwhelming House of Commons effected - 10What did Joseph Bazalgette do?-Parliament gave him the responsibility of solving the Great Stink
-Came up with sewers - 11What were the positives of Bazalgette's work?-People pleased that somebody finally took action
-People could return to their homes
-Less illness spread
-His system still stands and is used today - 12What opposition did Bazalgette have?-Cost was an issue
-Sewage still ended up in the Thames on rare occaasions - 13When was the Reform Act?1867
- 14What did the 1867 Reform Act give?-A vote to all householders or those with £10+ year rent
-Give a vote to agricultural land owners
-Parties had to start listening to the poor - 15Why did people oppose Government intervention in public health?-Little understanding about cause of disease
-Cost to ratepayers
-Attack on Freedom
-People liked self intervention and Laissez Fiare
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- Part of OCR GCSE History-Paper Two: Demands for reform and reaction to these demands, from the specification. This paper is NEW FOR 2015!!!
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- I Turner · Mai 2015
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