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History Public Health Dates
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- 11760Industrial revolution starts
- 21831-1832Cholera outbreak kills approximately 8,000 people in London
- 31832Investigation into the poor laws
- 41834Poor law amendment act
- 51842Edwin Chadwick publishes "Sanitary conditions of the laboring population of Great Britain"
- 61848Cholera epidemic kills approximately 12,000
- 71848First public health act
- 81854Broad street Cholera outbreak
- 91855Dr John Snow diagnoses the waterborne nature of Cholera
- 101858The Great Stink
- 111866Cholera epidemic in London
- 121867Reform act
- 131875Second public health act
- 141875Artisan and Labour Dwellings Improvement Act
- 151875Joseph Chamberlain orchestrates slum clearance in Birmingham
- 161889Charles Booth publishes "Labour and Life of the People"
- 171899Seebohm Rowntree publishes "Poverty a Study of Town Life"
- 181899Boer war rejects recruits en masse due to poor physical health
- 191906Free school meals act
- 201907School medical inspections begin
- 211908Old Age Pensions Act
- 221909Labour exchanges set up
- 231910Lloyd George's "Peoples Budget" is passed
- 241911-1912National Insurance Act
- 251914Start of first world war
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