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Flashcards by The amazing Oli © , updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by The amazing Oli ©
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| Question | Answer |
| 1760 | Industrial revolution starts |
| 1831-1832 | Cholera outbreak kills approximately 8,000 people in London |
| 1832 | Investigation into the poor laws |
| 1834 | Poor law amendment act |
| 1842 | Edwin Chadwick publishes "Sanitary conditions of the laboring population of Great Britain" |
| 1848 | Cholera epidemic kills approximately 12,000 |
| 1848 | First public health act |
| 1854 | Broad street Cholera outbreak |
| 1855 | Dr John Snow diagnoses the waterborne nature of Cholera |
| 1858 | The Great Stink |
| 1866 | Cholera epidemic in London |
| 1867 | Reform act |
| 1875 | Second public health act |
| 1875 | Artisan and Labour Dwellings Improvement Act |
| 1875 | Joseph Chamberlain orchestrates slum clearance in Birmingham |
| 1889 | Charles Booth publishes "Labour and Life of the People" |
| 1899 | Seebohm Rowntree publishes "Poverty a Study of Town Life" |
| 1899 | Boer war rejects recruits en masse due to poor physical health |
| 1906 | Free school meals act |
| 1907 | School medical inspections begin |
| 1908 | Old Age Pensions Act |
| 1909 | Labour exchanges set up |
| 1910 | Lloyd George's "Peoples Budget" is passed |
| 1911-1912 | National Insurance Act |
| 1914 | Start of first world war |
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