History 0.0 / 5 ? HistoryMedicine through time (OCR History A)GCSEOCR Created by: Orbit0907Created on: 07-02-18 17:05 `1348 Black Death arrives in England 1 of 13 1665 Great Plague in London – Mayor issues orders for sick to be locked up in their house and appointed searchers and rakers 2 of 13 1831-32 First cholera epidemic – they still had the same ideas about causes and treatments as in the plague 3 of 13 1842 Edwin Chadwick’s report – The Report on the Sanitary Conditions of the Working Classes 4 of 13 1848 First public health act, it was a failure as it was not compulsory 5 of 13 1854 John Snow links Broad Street pump to cholera epidemic 6 of 13 1858 The Great Stink – Led to Parliament investing £3million into creating sewers 7 of 13 1867 1867 AD Working class men get the vote, suddenly politicians have to to take social reform more seriously 8 of 13 1868 1868 AD Sanitary Act – Towns had to install clean water and sewer supplies 9 of 13 1875 Second public health act, far more effective than the first as all local councils had to follow this. 10 of 13 1906-1911 Liberal reforms: National Insurance, Pension, Free School Meals 11 of 13 1943 Beveridge report published 12 of 13 1945 National Health Service introduced 13 of 13
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