Demands for reform and reaction to these demands

Question 1

1830’s

Answer 1

Improved Microscopes

Question 2

1831-1832

Answer 2

Cholera Epidemic. Kills Rich and Poor

Question 3

1842

Answer 3

Edwin Chadwick ‘ Report into the Sanitary Conditions of the Laboring Population of Great Britain’

1. ) Poor-Dirty Conditions
2. )Improve drainage, sewers, waste, clean water & Med Officers

Question 4

1848

Answer 4

Public Health Act.
Towns-Clean Up, but no punishment if don’t
Opposition- Taxes
Didn’t like interference of the government
Set up- General Board of Health

Question 5

1849

Answer 5

Cholera out break
Jhon Snow ‘ On the mode of Communication of Cholera’
Cholera spread thorough water

Question 6

1853

Answer 6

Vaccination for SP

Question 7

1854

Answer 7

Jhon Snow Publishes more proof- cholera spread through water. Broad Street- test
General Board of Health- Disbanded

Question 8

1855

Answer 8

Nuisance Removal Act- Overcrowding=illegal

Question 9

1856

Answer 9

London Board of Works- Public Works

Joeshph Bazelgette- Cheif Eng

Question 10

1858

Answer 10

The Great Stink

Question 11

1861

Answer 11

The Germ Theory

Question 12

1864

Answer 12

Factory Act- Unhealthy conditions illegal

Question 13

1866

Answer 13

Clean Water+ Sewage= Inspection

Bazalgette= London Sewers

Question 14

1867

Answer 14

Poor= Vote

Question 15

1868

Answer 15

Improve or destroy slums

Question 16

1875

Answer 16

Artistan Dwelling Act- Landlord= Good Condition

Question 17

1875 2

Answer 17

Food & Drugs Act- Not of the proper nature

Question 18

1875 3

Answer 18

Public Health Act- Clean streets + Sewers.
Towns= Tax
COMPULSORY

Question 19

1876

Answer 19

River Pollution Prevention Act