📝 IDEA PARAGRAPHS - revolution of medicine

Question 1

D) for Edwin Chadwick and reforms,

What did Edwin Chadwick produce and why?

Answer 1

Produced a report on the living conditions and health of the poor in 1842

Question 2

E) for Edwin Chadwick and reforms

What connections had Chadwick made between health and poverty?

Answer 2

Linked that poverty was causing bad health and he highlighted the need for cleaner streets and cleaner water

Question 3

A) for Edwin Chadwick and reforms

• what were the key points of Chadwick-how would these have helped with public health?
• what was the reaction to Chadwick and why?

Answer 3

• he wanted to appoint medical officers who would oversee the living conditions as cleaner streets would have a beneficial impact on public heath, wanted them to have clean water as it was causing disease like cholera and so having a + effect on public health, poor drainage was contaminating water supplies
• There was no reaction due to the laissez faire government attitude and so reforms were not introduced and landlords didn’t want the expense of having to rebuild slum housing but a public health act was passed in 1848 as a result of another cholera outbreak where they tried to clean streets and introduce local health boards but this wasn’t very effective