Public Health: Changing attitudes to public health and the individuals/acts concerned

Individuals:

• Edwin Chadwick
  • 1834 secretary to the Poor Law
    • disliked by ordinary people
  • 1838 report on London
    • living conditions caused death
  • 1842 The Unsanitary Conditions of the Labouring Classes
    • more people die from disease than war
    • only government can improve conditions
      • breaks Laissez-faire
    • drains and sewage need improving
    • bad conditions lead to immoral behavior
  • Believed in miasma
• William Farr
  • First Registrar General
  • 1837 compulsory to register all births, deaths and marriages
    • provides evidence that disease is biggest killer
• Ashley Cooper - Lord Shaftsbury
  • In agreement with Chadwick
  • 1844 The Health of Towns Association publish 2nd report
    • agrees with Chadwick's conclusions
• John Snow
  • Discovered cause of cholera
    • Broad Street pump
      • woman 3 miles away died from water from pump
• John Simon
  • Chief Medical Officer
  • Introduces 2nd Public Health Act
  • Makes smallpox vaccination compulsory
• Joseph Bazalgette
  • Built sewage system for London
• Joseph Chamberlain
  • Introduced municipal socialism in Birmingham
    • uses Artisan's Dwelling Act
      • knocks down slums of Birmingham
        • replaces with new town centre
• Titus Salt
  • Model Town
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