Chapter 1: The impetus for public health reforms

Chapter 1: The impetus for public health reform

WHY DID REFORMS TO PUBLIC HEALTH BECOME SUCH A PRESSING ISSUE FROM c1780?

Overview

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Public Health problems caused by the Industrial Revolution

RISING AND MOBILE POPULATION

Most rapid increase between 1811 and 1841 due to consequences of the Industrial rev.:

Death rate fell because...

- med ind producing vaccine preventing smallpox killing so many

- agr ind producing food at a better quality and quantity

- chem ind. producing soap that's cheap and easily available

- text ind producing cotton cloth that is cheap and easy to was so people keep clean

Birth rate rose because...

- few deaths when young so people survive to 20s / 30s to have children

- more babies living to adulthood means more generations of children

Marriage rate rose because...

- in rural areas, farmers employed few live-in servants. So easier for men and women to begin lives together and married early

-earlier marriages in days before contraception meaning more babies

IMPACT ON LIVING CONDITIONS

- Involvement in intellectual and socially aware radical circles in London led him to reject the hard-line of the COS, ‘That poverty was the fault of the poor’.

 - Due to entrepreneurship, he wasn't prepared to go as far as some thinkers and blame the capitalist system for creating poverty.

- After involvement in the 1885 Mansion Hone Enquiry into unemployment, he was ready and not…