Dirt, disease and public health: nature of the
problem
Impact of industrial
revolutions on
living conditions
significance of increasing and
mobile population for public health
Theories of disease
Exploring source material:
problems in establishing an
effective public health system
Public health provision before 1848
Cholera
Epidemics of: 1831-2, 1848-9, 1853-4, 1866-7
Reactions of the
Board of Health and
local boards
Role of John snow and the pressure for reform
Importance of Edwin
Chadwick in the debate for
change
Using source material to evaluate the importance of the individual
Joseph Bazalgette
legislation
Connection between the Poor Law and public health
The significance if the reoprt on the
Sanitary conditions of the Labouring
Populations of Great Britain 1842 by
Chadwick. His impact on the 1844
Report of the Royal Commission into
the Sanitary conditions of Large Towns
and Populous Districts, and the Health
of Towns Association
The 1848 Public Health Act - its significance and
implementation
The need for later
legislation 1858 and
1866 and the impact
of these Acts
Exploring source
material: Opposition to
public health provision
Interrelationship of factors
1875 Public
Health Act:
why was it
necessary?
Improved inderstanding about
the nature and transmission of
disease
Changing attitudes to
state intervention
(Laissez-faire)
Civil engineering, new technologies and possiblities
Exploring source material: A
local study on public health
provision e.g. Leeds or
Exeter