issues affecting public health

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Issues affecting public health
- Housing
- Sanitation
- Disease
Sanitation
Disease
Barriers to public health provision
- Issues affecting public health
  - Housing
Overcrowding
Families lived in one or two rooms
Little ventilation
Poor access to running water
Lack of drainage
All linked to growth of disease
Massive sanitation problems
Germ Theory discovered, 1867
Life expectancy was low
Influenza, Scarlet fever, measles could also result in death
Epidemics - Cholera (1831-2, 1848-9 and 1866)
Toilets were outside shared with other houses
Waste collected by night soil men and sold to farmers
Ash privvies emptied physically
Water from stand pipes was carried
Water was expensive to buy so was carried from wells or streets
Poor quality water = disease
Lack of compulsory legislation - laisse faire
- Barriers to public health provision
Vested interests - people who made money out of the cuurent system
Ignorance- especially of the cause of disease
Too much peicemeal, local legislation which was not systematic

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