EDWIN CHADWICK

EDWIN CHADWICK

Chadwick was Bentham's most fervent disciple
1. Chadwick was his secretary in the years before his death in 1832
Chadwick developed Bentham's ideas in that he believed that the able-bodied poor should be kept in workhouses in conditions that were worse than those of the poorest 'free' labourer outside
1. In this way, only the genuinely desperate would ask for relief
Chadwick was a major contributor to the report resulting from the Royal Commission of Enquiry into the poor laws (1832-4). Working as an assistant commissioner, he was a tireless, 'hands on' investigator who insisted on seeing for himself the effects of poverty and the operation of the Poor Laws.
1. The final report of the committee was greatly influenced by Chadwick and led directly to the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834
  1. As a result, a central Poor Law Commission was set up, with Chadwick as its secretary and with the power to issue orders to reform poor relief.
Chadwick, appreciating that poverty and ill health were closely connected, began to press for public health reform. In 1842, he published his three volume 'Survey into the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Classes in Great Britain' that eventually led to the Public Health Act of 1848
1. The report stated that there was an urgent need to improve the living conditions of the poor and that the lack of public health was directly related to the lifestyles endured by the poor
2. Chadwick also noted that he labouring class could not labour as well as it could in an expanding industrial economy because of their poverty and poor health
  1. Therefore it was argued that the improved health of the poor would directly benefit the nation as a whole
Born in Manchester, 24th January 1800.

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