laissez-faire [(les-ay-fair, lay-zay-fair)] French for “Let (people) do (as they choose).” This was the view of the government.
1 of 19
Edwin Chadwick - 1842
Wrote a report on poor sanitation and public health.
2 of 19
John Snow - 1854
Removed the handle of the broad street pump after a cholera outbreak. Proving that cholera is waterborne.
3 of 19
Joseph Bazalgette - 1858
Designed a sewer system in london
4 of 19
Great stink
1858
5 of 19
Cholera epidemics
1831-1832, 1848, 1853
6 of 19
Germ Theory
1861
7 of 19
1867
Working class men get the vote
8 of 19
1848
Public health act
9 of 19
1875
Public health act......... Disraili's reforms: the Artisans' Dwellings act, the Rivers Pollution Prevention Act and the Food and Drugs act.
10 of 19
Joseph Chamberlain - 1873
Liberal mayor of Birmingham, he made attempts to try and change public health.
11 of 19
Bournville
Bournville village In 1879 George and Richard Cadbury, makers of chocolate and cocoa moved their factory from the city to the countryside. They created a model village for their workers. This was the Bourneville village.
12 of 19
Port sunlight
Village built for workers.
13 of 19
Charles Booth and Rowntree
Booth and Rowntree both identified the main causes of poverty as being illness, unemployment and age.
14 of 19
Boer War
11 Oct 1899 – 31 May 1902
15 of 19
Lloyd George
Help for the young: free school meals (1906), School medical inspections (1907), school clinics (1912)
16 of 19
Help for the elderly
1908
17 of 19
Help for the sick and unemployed
Labour exchanges 1909
18 of 19
The National Insurance act
1911-1912
19 of 19
Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
Edwin Chadwick - 1842
Back
Wrote a report on poor sanitation and public health.
Comments
No comments have yet been made