Public Health
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- Created on: 25-04-13 13:53
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- Public Health
- Theories
- Contagion
- Disease caused by the people who already have the disease
- Qurantine the solution then
- Failed- people living in the same house did not all get a disease
- Miasma
- Popular theory
- Believed by Chadwick- "All smell is disease"
- Disease from dying mattr in the air
- This explained, to upper/middle class why poor people got cholera
- Made sense for a lot of people- refused to believe anything else
- Germ Theory
- Disease caused by micro-organims
- Public refused to believe in science
- Louis Pasteur- eventually proven by Dr. Robert Koch in 1860s
- Snow's discovery supported this
- Disliked by mnay, includes EC
- Contagion
- People
- Dr. Neil Arnott
- Same as EC
- Dr. James Kay-Shuttlesworth
- Same as EC
- Dr.John Snow
- Discovered that cholera was waterborne
- Dr. Southwood Smith
- Same as EC
- Joseph Bazalgette
- designed London's sewers
- Edwin Chadwick
- PHA Act 1848 and CBOH
- John Simon- Saniatation Act 1866
- Dr. Neil Arnott
- Dirty diseases
- Typhoid
- Separated from typhus in 1969
- Prince Albert died 1861 from it
- Typhus
- Hit in 1837, 1839, 1847
- Known as Irish fever
- Cholera
- Vibro- bacteria
- Water and food borne- contaminated only
- 4 outbreaks
- 1831-2: 32,000
- 1853-4: 20,000
- 1848-9: 62,000
- 1866-7: 14,000
- Typhoid
- Legislation/reports
- Public Health Act 1848
- 1st Government action
- Set up the Central Board of Health
- Local boards could set up in two circumstances
- If death rate was more than 23 per 1000 (nat. average was 21 per 1000)
- If 10% of ratepayers wanted one
- Permissive- not mandatory
- Public Health Act and Local Government Act 1866
- Disbanded the Central Board of Health
- Its powers transferred to the Privy Council
- Disbanded because Chadwick was v. unpopular
- Public Health Act 1875
- Culmination of all previous acts
- Made every mandatory
- Royal Commission
- Official Government committee on PH
- Set up to because of Chadwick's findings- he was so disliked that they could not base an act his findings alone
- Chadwick's reports
- PIlot study
- Chadwick and the PLC believed disease caused pauperism
- So the PLC commissioned Chadwick to a pilot study into it
- Report into the Saniatation of the working class 1842
- PLC then commissioned him to do full report
- 3 doctors- Southwood Smith, James Kay-Shuttlesworth and Neil Arnott
- Self published
- Named names so the PLC refused to publish it
- PIlot study
- Public Health Act 1848
- Theories
- Legislation/reports
- Public Health Act 1848
- 1st Government action
- Set up the Central Board of Health
- Local boards could set up in two circumstances
- If death rate was more than 23 per 1000 (nat. average was 21 per 1000)
- If 10% of ratepayers wanted one
- Permissive- not mandatory
- Public Health Act and Local Government Act 1866
- Disbanded the Central Board of Health
- Its powers transferred to the Privy Council
- Disbanded because Chadwick was v. unpopular
- Public Health Act 1875
- Culmination of all previous acts
- Made every mandatory
- Royal Commission
- Official Government committee on PH
- Set up to because of Chadwick's findings- he was so disliked that they could not base an act his findings alone
- Chadwick's reports
- PIlot study
- Chadwick and the PLC believed disease caused pauperism
- So the PLC commissioned Chadwick to a pilot study into it
- Report into the Saniatation of the working class 1842
- PLC then commissioned him to do full report
- 3 doctors- Southwood Smith, James Kay-Shuttlesworth and Neil Arnott
- Self published
- Named names so the PLC refused to publish it
- PIlot study
- Public Health Act 1848
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