Key PH Figures
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- Created on: 07-05-13 17:37
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- Important people with Public Health
- Edwin Chadwick
- Health of Towns Association
- Chadwick's propaganda campaign
- Chadwick= de facto leader
- Produced a weekly sheet of facts and figures
- 1842 Report
- PLC let him do full report
- Took 3 years before published in 1842
- Named names
- To protect vested interests etc. the PLC refused to publish it
- Largely self published by Chadwick himself
- Royal Commission
- Based on Chadwick's findings
- Chadwick hated by the public, needed to investigate further
- Pilot Study
- Believed that disease caused pauperism
- So the PLC commissioned him to a pilot study
- For London only
- 3 doctors- Dr. James Kay, Dr. Southwood Smith and Dr. Neil Arnott
- Public Health Act 1848
- Created a Central Board Health
- Chadwick became commissionerfor the CBOH
- Health of Towns Association
- Joseph Bazalgette
- Designed London sewers
- Chief Engineer of the Metropolitan Board of Works
- Only got the go ahead for his sewer plans after the Great Stink of 1858
- Moved sewage away to the tidal part of the Thames- and into the sea
- Louis Pasteur
- Developed the Germ Theory
- Micro organisms caused disease in tape worms, why not in humans?
- Developed into the 1860s
- Believed this caused disease
- Not many believed him- wasn't until Robert Koch proved his theory later
- John Simon
- 1866 Sanitation Act
- Key campaigner
- Member of the Health of Towns Association
- Chief Medical Officer to the government
- 1866 Sanitation Act
- John Snow
- Discovered that Cholera was waterborne
- Dead before his theory was proved
- Well organised investigations
- Used the Broad Street Pump as basis of investiagtion
- His theory called "Gentleman's Theory"
- He was shy, so he did not push his theory
- William Farr
- Chief Statiscian
- After the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1837
- Released lots of information on the causes of deaths
- Helped to persuade people via facts and figures
- Edwin Chadwick
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