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Mind Map by Beth Muckle, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Beth Muckle
almost 10 years ago
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19th Century Public Health
- Why wasn't anything done?
- Poor couldn't afford to visit the doctor
- People didn't like other people interfering
- Government didn't take responsibility
- Germ theory not accepted
- Poor couldn't afford to visit the doctor
- Was it a success?
- Working men were given the vote
- The Great Clean Up
- Government acted when the germ theory was accepted- 1867 ish
- Working men were given the vote
- John Snow
- Pioneer in surgery and public health
- Mocked by doctors
- Proved clean water prevented the spread of cholera- it wasn't bad air
- Not accepted until people had accepted the germ theory
- 1849
- Pioneer in surgery and public health
- Chadwick
- Wrote a "Report on the sanitary conditions of the laboring population"
- Showed how the poor lived in dirty, overcrowded conditions. This caused illness which meant they couldn't work which made them poorer which meant they had to pay higher taxes
- Showed how the poor lived in dirty, overcrowded conditions. This caused illness which meant they couldn't work which made them poorer which meant they had to pay higher taxes
- Produced a mass of evidence for the Public Health Report
- Persuaded people that a reform was needed, but the reform wasn't immediate
- Basis for Public Health Act 1848
- Influence faded in the 1850s
- Personality held him back
- 1842
- Wrote a "Report on the sanitary conditions of the laboring population"
- William Farr
- Used registers of births, deaths and marriages to work out where the death rates were highest and why
- Provided the link between high death rate and unhealthy living conditions
- Pressure to change
- 1837
- Used registers of births, deaths and marriages to work out where the death rates were highest and why
- Public health Acts
- 1848 (not compulsary)
- National board of Health
- Improvement for the poor
- Taxes
- Medical officers
- National board of Health
- 1875
- Local councils forced to provide:
- Water
- Public toilets
- Proper sewage and drainage systems
- Water
- Medical officer of Health
- Local councils forced to provide:
- 1848 (not compulsary)
- The Great Stink and Bazalgette
- The "Great Stink" happened in 1858
- Hot and no rain- River Thames became smelly
- Hot and no rain- River Thames became smelly
- Bazalgette designed and built London's sewage system after the Great Stink
- 83 miles of main sewage
- 1100 miles of sewers for each street with a series of major pumping stations
- Main work done by 1865 but took another 10 years to be fully completed
- 83 miles of main sewage
- The "Great Stink" happened in 1858
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