Industrial Public Health
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- Industrial Public Health
- Conditions in Cities
- A single factory employed hundreds- quickly built rows of back to back houses
- Many workers were squeezed into a house
- 5 or more people in one small room
- Few houses had toilets- they were shared
- Water came from the same place as sewage.
- No rubbish collections, no street cleaners or sewers, no fresh running water
- Chadwick
- Cholera outbreaks of 1837 and 38- inquiry of living conditions
- Believed Miasma theory
- Chadwick Report
- Disease caused by bad air, damp, filth and overcrowded houses
- Medical officers should take charge of a district
- Need clean water
- Healthier workforce would work harder and cost rich less.
- Laws should be passed to improve drainage and sewers, funded by taxpayers
- Reactions
- Government did not act- not their job to interfere and force people to be hygienic.
- MPs who rented slum houses did not want expense of having to tear them down and rebuild them.
- Cholera-1848
- Killed 60,000 people
- 1948- Public Health Act
- Central Board of Health set up to improve public health in towns.
- Any town could have a Local Board of Health- not compulsory
- Local councils empowered to spend money on cleaning streets
- Any town could have a Local Board of Health- not compulsory
- Some made huge improvements like Birmingham and Liverpool, but others did nothing
- 1853- 103 towns had a local board of health
- 1854, Central Board of Health closed down as govt. interference was hated
- Central Board of Health set up to improve public health in towns.
- Dr Snow
- Cholera outbreak-1854
- Linked cholera to water
- Removed a tap in Soho so everyone used another, outbreak stopped
- Toilet sewage leaking into water pump source
- Not airborne, but contagious and caught by infected water
- Cholera outbreak-1854
- The Great Stink
- Summer of 1858, heat wave caused River Thames to produce 'great stink'
- Alarmed politicians so much they agreed to pay for sanitary improvements
- Parliament gave engineer- Bazalgette money to build a sewer system
- By 1866, he built an 83 mile sewer system which removed 420 million gallons of sewage a day
- Parliament gave engineer- Bazalgette money to build a sewer system
- 1875 Public Health Act
- 1867- working class men got the vote
- Parties would get voted in if they promised to improve conditions
- Local councils had to appoint Medical Officers to be responsible for public health
- Councils were ordered to build sewers, supply fresh water, and collect rubbish
- Local councils had to appoint Medical Officers to be responsible for public health
- Parties would get voted in if they promised to improve conditions
- 1867- working class men got the vote
- Conditions in Cities
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