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| Question | Answer |
| DEMANDS FOR REFORM AND REACTION TO THESE DEMANDS | . |
| What 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 |
| What positive reactions did the work of Chadwick have? | -Poor pleased with public improvements -Government pleased with research done |
| What 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 |
| At roughly what time period were the Cholera epidemics? | 1830's to 1860's (1831-1866, to be precise) |
| What 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 |
| What 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 |
| When was the Great Stink? | 1858 |
| What happened in the Great Stink? | -Very hot summer -Smell so overwhelming House of Commons effected |
| What did Joseph Bazalgette do? | -Parliament gave him the responsibility of solving the Great Stink -Came up with sewers |
| What 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 |
| What opposition did Bazalgette have? | -Cost was an issue -Sewage still ended up in the Thames on rare occaasions |
| When was the Reform Act? | 1867 |
| What 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 |
| Why 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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