National 5 History Unit 2: Changing Britain- Health & Housing
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- Health & Housing
- Poor Housing
- Tenements
- Poor ventilation
- Poor lighting
- Close together (no light/fresh air)
- No building regulations
- No running water
- Overcrowding
- Large families
- Immigrants
- People surviving infancy more
- Search for employment led many to cities
- child labor meant more people to provide for family
- Save money for rent, split between people
- Meant disease spread easily
- No sewage system
- cesspools and piles of rubbish on streets
- Outside toilet (up to 50 people sharing one privvy) close to water pump
- Conditions
- Filthy
- Cold- only source of heat from fire
- Smog and pollution from factories
- Waste got into drinking water
- constant stench
- diseases thrived
- Tenements
- Medical Problems
- Chloera
- drinking contaminated water
- death often occurred within 24 hours
- CLEAN WATER SUPPLY
- diarrhea and stomach pains
- death often occurred within 24 hours
- drinking contaminated water
- Typhus
- Consuming food/water that had been contaminated with sewage and the bacteria
- High fever
- Stomach pains
- CLEAN WATER SUPPLY & SEWAGE SYSTEMS
- Diarrohea
- Consuming food/water that had been contaminated with sewage and the bacteria
- Typhoid
- A fever caused by bacteria and spread quickly by poor ventilation
- CLEAN WATER SUPPLY
- A fever caused by bacteria and spread quickly by poor ventilation
- Smallpox
- A virus that would be breathed in by overcrowding
- death toll was 1 in 3
- Caused puss filled spots
- EDWARD JENNER 1978 VACCINE
- A virus that would be breathed in by overcrowding
- Chloera
- Why did living conditions improve?
- National democratic reform
- PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 1848
- only 2 million out of 18 million received boards which controlled sewage, drainage, slaughter houses, roads and water supplies
- New houses needed a toilet and supplied with clean water
- Old buildings needed a cesspit or drainpipe.
- PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 1875
- Health and sanitary inspectors introduced into every city. Local authorities had to provide fresh water and organise refuse collection.
- Public houses and lavatories built
- PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 1848
- Fear of disease
- pushed for medical breakthrough
- Vaccinations
- Link with water supply and disease
- Link with spread of diseases and overcrowding/no ventilation
- More doctors trained to tend to sick
- pushed for medical breakthrough
- Local government reform
- Improved water supply
- Sewers built
- Clean water piped into homes
- Slum clearances
- Artisans Dwelling Act allowed councils to demolish the worst slum areas and build new houses
- Other health acts
- Council lay sewers, drains, pavements and street lamps
- refuse collection
- Inspectors emplyed to make sure standards of streets/buildings maintained
- Council provided baths & wash houses
- NUISANCE REMOVAL ACT (1885)
- SALE OF FOOD AND DRUGS ACT 1875
- enforced standards of good sold
- BUILDING REGULATIONS INTRODUCED
- National democratic reform
- Poor Housing
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