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