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Public health: 19th Century
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GCSE History Mapa Mental sobre Public health: 19th Century, criado por Dede Casely-Hayford em 02-03-2015.
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Public health: 19th Century
Public Health Acts
1848
Causes
Cholera epidemic
Miasma
Poverty/overcrowding
Poor couldn't vote
People claimed poor relif when ill
Way to raise taxes
Effects
Act not enforced, only third of towns used it
Unless death rate passed 23 per thousand
Abolished 1858
Water companies objected, etc.
What was it about?
Local board of health
Local medical officer
Removal of rubbish
Build new sewer systems
General board of health with E.C
1875
Causes
1861 - Pasteur's germ theory showed how disease spread, hygiene improved
1867 - Cholera
1867 - Working class could vote
William Farr - Death rates higher in towns and cities/ villages
1854 - Snow proves the link between dirty water and cholera
What was it about?
Local councils responsible for
Removal of rubbish
Sewers
Drains
Clean water
Public toilets
Monitoring quality of food in shops
Basic services e.g water, lighting still in hands of private companies/individuals
Ensured quality of housing improved
Enforced new law against polluting water
Local medical officer
Health and sanitary officers
Individuals
Edwin Chadwick
Role
Secretary to comisson in charge of workhouses
Published results of housing conditions in towns survey: 'Report on the sanitary conditions of labouring population of Great Britain'
Suggested it would be cheaper if local taxes used to improve housing and hygiene
Suggestions criticised by some
Laissez-faire government
Water companies thought it would reduce profits
Cholera epidemic (1848) forced government to change
1848 Public health act
John Snow
Discoveries
Used statistical, systematic methods to plot the location of Cholera victims near Broad street
Marked deaths on map
Investigated theory that cholera spread through dirty w.
Clear concentration of death around water pump on Broad street
Removed pump, deaths fell
Sig. impact
Identified pump as cause of contagion
Change in epidemiology
Saved lives
Proved ideas were correct
Lim. impact
Believed in miasma
Taking pump handle had little effect, epidemic already going
Report gathered little support
None from authorities and public
Joseph Bazalgette
The Great Stink - 1858
Hot weather, combined with sewage in River Thames intensified smell
Cholera outbreak
Convinced government public health reform needed
Role
Designed complex sewer system for London
Considered future population
Over 7y to complete
1,300 miles of sewers & pumping stations and embankments
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