What improved public health?

Public Health Acts
1. 1875
  1. Forced authorities to supply clean water, proper drainage and sewage and to appoint officers of health
2. 1848
  1. towns forced to take action
  2. National Board of Health
  3. increased taxes
  4. appointment of medical officers
Edwin Chadwick and the Poor Law Commission
1. asked to report on the living conditions and health of the poor
The work of John Snow
1. proved link between water and cholera
2. did research, observation and house-to-house interviews
3. Broad Street pump
Pasteur's germ theory
1. Proved link between dirt and disease
Statistics
1. proved a link between unhealthy living conditions and high death rates
2. shamed towns into action
Improving education
1. schools in every area
Cities leading the way
1. Leeds
  1. appointed medical officer of health
2. competition
New voters
1. Working class men allowed to vote
2. MPs more likely to listen to their needs

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	Created by claud almost 11 years ago