Nature of problem Flashcards
What years did the population double?
1801-1851
Poverty and pauperism affected the lower classes however disease was…
No respecter of persons
In 1851 what % lived in it urban towns?
50%
When was the industrial revolution?
1760-1820/40
What filth diseases were there?
Typhoid, Tuberculosis, scarlet fever and Cholera
Housing; what was unique about industrial revolution?
The dense overcrowding
What did Bradford woolcombers society appoint?
A sanitary committee reported on living conditions eg holgate square
What did Frederick Engels publish in 1844?
The condition of the working class in England - Vivid picture of housing in industrial Manchester, absence of affordable public transport, workers housed close to mills
What was sanitation like?
Lack of services to the house rather than the house itself, lavatories outside ‘night soil men’ water controlled by vested interests, water collected at standpipes
What was death like?
Urban areas - 1/4 babies does before first birthday, Victorians buried dead, Anglican clergy had a vested interest keeping burials within churchyards (death rate soared) London eg 200 acres of cemetery - overcrowding
How adequate was public health before 1848? Three main stumbling blocks in way of adequate health provision?
Lack of compulsory national legislation
Opposition of vested interests
Ignorance in way disease was spread
Local authorities however didn’t simply ignore issue eg
Pioneering work done in certain places by individual medical people/administrators. Eg Thomas Perceval and John Ferriar behind formation of Manchester board of health in 1795
Why would health schemes collapse?
Diff local administration an different personnel and diff priorities, piecemeal and initiatives only applied locally
What is piecemeal?
Small amount of time
Why was it administrative nightmare in London
Administrated by 300 diff bodies with interest in public health,operated 250acts. At st Pancras it ha 16 paving boards acting under 29 acts of parliament
