How did public health improve throughout 1800-1914?
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- Created on: 14-06-16 09:29
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- How did public health improve throughout 1800-1914?
- Scientific advances
- 1838 Chadwick proves poor living conditions contribute to disease
- 1855 Dr Snow challenges miasma theory by proving that cholera is waterborne
- Louis Pasteur worked throughout the 1860s to prove 'germ theory' - the theory that disease is caused by microorganisms. He succeeded and also proved that fermentation processes are caused by resident microorganisms. Finally, people knew roughly what they were dying from
- Changes in politics
- The rising power of the socialist and labour parties forced Liberals to become more active on subjects such as public health
- Laissez-faire gradually collapsed as it became clear that Britain's poorer people could not improve their living standards on their own
- Public works
- Kind-hearted industrialists such as George Cadbury and William Lever built model villages at Bourneville and Port Sunlight to protect their workers' living standards
- Birmingham slums were demolished by Joseph Chamberlain who took advantage of the Artisan Dwellings Act 1875, which allowed him to purchase the area
- Sir Joseph Bazalgette completely redesigned London's sewers throughout the 1860s, removing sewage from the streets
- Laws
- Artisan Dwellings Act 1875
- Public health acts in 1848 and 1875
- The reform act 1867 gave more people the vote, meaning politicians had to take notice of issues such as public health which mainly affected the working classes
- Liberal Welfare Reforms 1906-1912:
- Free school meals 1906
- School medical exams 1907
- School clinics 1912
- Pensions 1908
- Labour exchanges 1909
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