Public Health
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- Created on: 28-05-13 10:56
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- Public Health
- Middle Ages
- Water
- Leaks in pipes
- Water unclean
- Some drank ale instead
- Water unclean
- Close to sewage
- Leaks in pipes
- Sanitation
- Rich had baths and toilets in houses
- Poor would share a cesspit
- Chamber pots
- Poor would share a cesspit
- High standard of hygiene in monastries
- Rich had baths and toilets in houses
- Disposal
- Dumped in water used for drinking
- Animal and human waste in streets
- Rakers kept streets clean
- Attitudes
- Thought illness was sent from God
- No-one expected public health laws
- Thought illness was sent from God
- Water
- Renaissance
- Water
- Still conduits, water carriers
- Network of wooden pipes
- Rich used reservoirs
- Urbanisation
- London had over 100,000
- Disease difficult to control e.g Plague
- London had over 100,000
- Disposal
- Night soil men cleared excretement
- Not often enough
- Rubbish put out twice a week
- Not always collected by rakers
- Too few officials
- Not always collected by rakers
- Night soil men cleared excretement
- Attitudes
- Realised link between dirt and disease
- No germ theory
- Realised link between dirt and disease
- Sanitation
- Some public toilets
- Most just used "******* places"
- Some public toilets
- Water
- Industrial Revolution
- Water
- water pumps
- council had to ensure clean piped water 1875
- soap more available
- Attitudes
- Germ theory
- Laissez faire challenged
- Reform act
- Government had to please poor
- Great Stink
- Rich affected
- Disposal
- bazalgette's sewers
- nightsoil men emptied cesspits
- Urbanisation
- london 957,000 to 2.36 m 1801-51
- Individuals
- snow
- link between disease and dirty water
- chadwick
- overcrowded conditions cause illness
- poor are too sick to work
- higher taxes
- poor are too sick to work
- overcrowded conditions cause illness
- snow
- Water
- 20th Century
- Urbanisation
- women and children not covered by National Insurance Act
- standard of living amongst poor remains low
- water
- central heating and hot water in all homes
- water treatment plants purify water
- responsibility for provision of water is with private companies
- disposal
- flushing toilets standard in all homes
- sewage treatment works
- individuals
- Bevan
- NHS
- beveridge
- NHS
- lloyd george
- reforms after boer war
- Bevan
- attitudes
- evacuation highlighted poverty in cities
- desire to create better future after WW2
- Government shocked about unfit soldiers in Boer war
- Urbanisation
- Middle Ages
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