📝IDEA PARAGRAPHS - Modern Medicine

Question 1

D) For government health reforms post 1900,

What did Booth and Rowntree discover?

Answer 1

Charles booth’s report was 1889 and Rowntree’s1801 
Booth found that 35% of London lived in poverty and row tree discovered over half of York’s working class lived in poverty. They both highlighted the plight of the poor

Question 2

E) For government health reforms post 1900,

how did the Boer War further encourage government action?

Answer 2

The boer war happened in South Africa in 1899 and 40% of volunteers were unfit to be soldiers due to poor health. This led government to set up a special committee that investigated the condition of young men with most being unhealthy

Question 3

A) For government health reforms post 1900,

How did the government tackle different aspects of public health through liberal reforms?

Answer 3

liberal reforms set up where

• 1906 there were free school meals, -1907 there were free medical inspections for school children
• 1908 children became protected persons to make sure future population is fit and healthy, -1908 there was an old age pension introduced so old people could support themselves
• 1909 there were job centres introduced for unemployed people to find their own work
• 1909 introduction of housing and town planning act to raise living standards of those in the lower end of society and made back to back housing illegal
• 1911 unemployment benefits

Question 4

D) for the beveridge and government health reforms in the 1940s,
When was the beveridge report produced and what did it say I.e what were the 5 evils?

Answer 4

Introduced in 1942, the 5 evils were disease, want, ignorance, idleness and squalor

Question 5

E) for the beveridge and government health reforms in the 1940s, How did the two world wars further encourage government actions

Answer 5

They needed healthy soldiers to defend Britain

Question 6

A) for the beveridge and government health reforms in the 1940s,
What did the labour government introduce?
How were these organisations intended to combat the issues highlighted by the beveridge report?

Answer 6

• Introduced the NHS and the welfare state ( all the social things like benefits)
• the welfare state which got rid of want as it gave people a monthly allowance, the poor got benefits to reduce want, slum housing was removed to get rid of squalor, The NHS gave people free prescription getting rid of disease