How far did the role of government grow? (3.1)

prosecute people responsible for 'nuisances'

local authorities to provide baths and washhouses out of public money

defined the rights of towns to lay water supplies and drainage schemes

• general board of health set up
• local boards of health set up
• could appoint a medical officer of health to manage sewers etc.
• persmissive and did not apply everywhere
• did not apply to London or Scotland

• reform was expensive
• government enroaching on their individual liberties
• vested interests
• problmes not understood by people on local boards
• Chadwick annoyed and angered many because of his bullying tactics

• general board of health abolished
• powers given to a new local government
• a medical department of the privy council was set up
• powers to appoint officials
• there was hostility towards general board of health and Chadwick

• John SImon - London's first officer of health and medical officer to general board of health
• removal of 'nuisances'
• 'nuisances' included overcrowding
• local authorities given powers to improve or demolish slum dwellings

• 1867 - parliamentary reform act gave the vote to working men in towns
• 3rd cholera epidemic in 1865-66 killed 20,000
• 1861 - Pasteur and germ theory

• every part of the country had to have a PH authority
• had to have at least one medical officer and one sanitary inspector
• government completley committed to the provision of PH

• Food and Drugs Act - 1938 - control over slaughterhouses and food adulteration
• local authorities took over control of water supplies