Public health: industrial diseases

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What did the industrial revolution mean for towns?
a huge growth in towns as people moved in to work in the new factories
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Low wages (housing)
low wages meant that several families shared low quality housing so it will have been cramped and dirty good for disease
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Laws (towns)
there were no laws to provide sewers, fresh water or toilets or even to remove rubbish this meant that infectious diseases spread more rapidly
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1831 (cholera)
appearance of cholera for the first time in UK put pressure on authorities to take action. Cholera could kill within a day and spread rapidly through communities
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First outbreak (cholera)
spread so rapidly and killed so quickly first outbreak killed thousands in just a few weeks
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1831-32 cholera outbreak
over 26000 died
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1848-49 cholera outbreak
over 53 000 died
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1853-54 cholera outbreak
over 20 000 people died
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1865-66 cholera outbreak
over 14 000 people died
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What did Chadwick believe was the problem?
believed many were ill because lived in unsanitary and overcrowded conditions
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Workhouses (Chadwick)
take in those who are too old, weak or ill to work and look after themselves. Run by local authorities with taxpayers money and cost is high
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Edwin Chadwick (solution)
need access to clean water. Sewers improved. Sewage and rubbish should be removed. Will reduce illness and admission to workhouses so will save money in long run
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Who was Chadwick?
sectary to the poor law commission which was in charge of all workhouses in Britain. He was very hardworking
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What survey did Chadwick do?
of conditions in working class areas of towns to work out how to reduce the taxes needed for workhouses
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1842 Chadwick
in 1842 he published the results entitled The Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population. Lots of attention and some criticism
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Why did the report get criticism?
belief that government shouldn't interfere with peoples lives, belief that government shouldn't interfere with peoples businesses, people didn't want to pay to improve conditions for those who could not pay themselves
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Chadwick's opponents
they were named the 'dirty party' little was done until another outbreak of cholera in 1848 led to the public health act
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Low wages (housing)

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low wages meant that several families shared low quality housing so it will have been cramped and dirty good for disease

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Laws (towns)

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1831 (cholera)

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First outbreak (cholera)

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