Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Social Developments
- Role of the People: Taking Intervention Measures
- Healthcare
- Gov doctors for rich Asians, Europeans and military doctors for soldiers - no
medical services for general public - high death rate
- Diseases (e.g. Beri-beri, tuberculosis, malaria) spread because of
inadequate medical supplies, dirty streets, overcrowded living spaces, & no sewage system
- Locals who helped improve healthcare - e.g. Tan Tock Seng --> founded
Chinese Pauper Hospital in Pearl's Hill where immigrants could seek
medical help at little or no cost; bury unclaimed bodies; paid funeral expenses
- Education
- British gvt did not see an urgent
need to provide education for locals -
left such matters in hands of
private organisations
- 19th C: schools were mostly
little-equipped and attended
only by boys
- e.g.1: Indian merchant, Narayana Pillai -
started small school for Indian children
- e.g.2: Christian missionaries opened 2
Cantonese schools, a Hokkien school and an
English school
- e.g.3: Chinese and Tamil schools;
madrasah schools for Malay
Muslim children
- Role of the Government: implementing and Formalising Nation-wide Measures
- Healthcare
- 1887: set up Public Health Department - malaria committee to
supervise infilling of mosquito-infested swamps, implementing
sewage system, clearing dirty streets and drains
- attempts to improve housing conditions
(e.g. reduce overcrowding in Chinatown)
- set up General Hospital, leper camp and lunatic asylum
- 1882 onwards: outpatient clinics for public
- Quarantine Law
- Education
- colonial gvt changed attitude towards education as
gvt needed skilled individuals & ppl trained in English
to fill the positions in offices and trading companies
- shows that gvt was primarily motivated by commerce, business and trade
- established Queen's scholarship for top
secondary school students to further studies in
British universities
- agreed to Asian leaders' request to set up medical
school (King Edward VII College of Medicine) on the
condition that locals raised funds
- built other institutions when pressure
was put on gvt by merchants
- however, British did not treat all schools equally - English & Malay schools received more funding than
Chinese schools (which they thought bred anti-British sentiments)