Public Health reforms

Date:  1861

• Published his germ theory 
• Conducted a series of public experiments to prove that diseases were caused by bacteria
• Final proof of a link between dirt and disease

Date: 1854

• Doctor in London
• Mapped out the people who had died from cholera
• Proved that cholera was spread by drinking infected water
• Later discovered that a nearby cesspool had been leaking into water supply

Date: 1837

• Realised that it was in everyone's interest to force towns to clean up
• William Farr driving force behind the compulsory registration of births, marriages and deaths

Date: 1848

• set up national board of health for five years
• towns could set up health boards if 10% of the population voted fro them
• boards of health had the power to raise taxes

Date: 1867

• working class men were given the vote for the first time
• politicians began to realise that if they promise laws that are appealing to working class men they would get more votes
• 1 million working class men got vote

Date: 1800's

• machinery powered by steam engines
• methods of building embankments
• invention of the flushing toilet

Date: 1842

• poor lived in dirty overcrowded conditions
• he suggested that drainage and sewers should be improved
• It was not the poor's fault for being ill it was the conditions they were living in which was causing them to be ill

Date: 1875

• also known as the Artisan dwellings act
• gave local authorities the power to demolish slums
• local councils made responsible for providing clean water and removing waste
• New medical officer of health
• sanitary inspectors appointed to inspect public health facilities

Date: 1866

• The engineer who designed and built the London sewage system after the great stink of 1858
• sewage no longer pumped into the river Thames
• Sewage systems underground
• 13 miles of sewers
• Did talks on sewers in 1858