1848 Public Health Act
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- Created on: 30-03-14 15:32
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- 1848 Public Health Act
- A General Board of Health was set up
- local boards of health empowered to monitor sewers, drains, wells etc.
- could finance projects with rates
- but it didn't apply to everywhere
- Like London or Scotland
- Act had to apply to areas with 23 dead per 1000 living
- the act wasn't compulsory or medical inspectors appointed until 1875
- little opposition because people needed it
- local authorities had powers to control sewage and drains etc
- only 400,000 people in Lancashire out of their 2.5 million population were under PH authority
- vested interests still strong
- sanitary engineering expensive
- by 1853, almost 300 petitions for the PH act to be implemented in towns
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