problems in public health
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- Created on: 07-11-18 20:52
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- problems with public health 18-1900s
- food
- not a lot of variety in food
- in 1873 there was cheaper food due to imports and because income was rising people could afford it
- better quality
- people had an overall better quality of life
- 1873 imported food began growing wealth - price of food dropped when cheap grain came
- 1867 working class men vote
- 1860 the pure food act to prevent the adulteration of food
- waste
- brick cess pools under toilets
- if the government didn't pay the cess pools will overflow and infect water
- waste was added to the thames
- people would drink from here
- cholera
- people would drink from here
- night soil men collected waste and sold it
- only one toilet per street
- overflowing
- upper and middle used flushing toilets
- 1861 pasteurs germ theory
- 1875 public health act
- 1872 benjamin disraeli
- 1858 thames dried up and smell was unbearable
- the MP's decided action had to be taken
- brick cess pools under toilets
- water
- the water wasn't clean because the waste was being put into sources
- didn't have an appropriate sewing system
- middle class could filter their water
- water was dirty from smoke filled sky
- 1854 john snow
- 1854 cholera germ identified
- 1866 another outbreak of cholera
- 1875 public health act
- housing
- overpopulation - cramped
- houses built close together
- little or no ventilation
- poor people had to cram in one room
- 1855 john simon
- food
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