Public Health

Public Health

1. Ancient Rome

   • Roman Enginnering
     • Aquaducts
     • Baths
     • Public toilets
     • Sewers
   • War
     • Soldier Healthcare
     • Healthy Army
   • Prevention not cure
   • Money spent on keeping fit
   • Government left it too the people for general health

2. Black plague

   • Le-safiare
   • War
     • Military Government
     • Major focous
   • Personal cures
     • Chicken/toads on buboes
     • Flagellants
     • Praying
   • London
     • Killing animals
     • Sweeping outside your house

3. 1665 Plauge

   • Scientific Knowledge
     • Protective clothing
     • Bird masks with herbs inside
     • Not touching the dead
   • Burying dead outside of city
   • Red crosses on infected hosues
   • Little government management

4. 1848 and 1875 public health acts

   • Housing laws
     • Bans the construction of back to back housing
     • Must have enough space between houses for rubbish carts
     • More sanitary facilities
   • Bazalgette has created sewers
     • Allows new sanitary infrastructure
   • Cholera epidemic
     • More interest in poverty stricken areas
     • People like Chadwick and Farr do surveys on poor areas
   • Many councils and builders ignore new laws
     • Back to back housing still built
     • Documents forged
   • Manditry midwife training

5. Liberal Reforms 1906-1914

   • Lloyd George
     • Very popular with pulic
     • Backs the Liberal reforms using his influence
   • New rights for the poor
     • Free school dinners
     • National insurance fund
       • Sick pay
       • Fights poverty
     • Free check ups
   • Did not help the unemployed
   • Effects were no that large
   • Demolishing more back to back housing

6. NHS 1948

   • Beveridge report
     • Cradle to the grave
     • Proposal of national health service
     • Everyone pays in to the national fund
   • Nye Bevan
     • From miners family
     • Strong liberal
     • Well liked by public
     • Leads the national health service proposal
   • Free health service for everone
     • Helps poor and unemployed
     • Nearly all treatments for free
     • Medical research and doctor training
   • Doctors against it
     • Had be bribed by Bevan
     • Wanted more money from private
     • Were allowed to performs privately aswell