Poverty, public health and the state in Britain Flashcards
A highly infectious epidemic disease that was carried by fleas that lived on rates
Bubonic Plague
Running services from a central London authority, rather than local authorities
Centralisation
A hole in the ground use to dispose of liquid waste and sewage
Cesspit
Births, marriages and deaths were issued as legal documents after 1837
Civil registration
A disease of condition regularly found among people in a certain area
Endemic
A widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time
Epidemic
Change from mainly agricultural (farming) society to one based on the manufacturing of goods and services
Industrialisation
“let be” or “leave alone”, this is the belief that the government should interfere as little as possible in the affairs of its people
Laissez-faire
People who collected human waste, usually at night
Night-soil men
An area served by a vicar and a parish church (also the area for secular administration
Parish
A person in receipt of relief
Pauper
A tax on property levied at parish level and used to provide relief for the parish poor
The poor rate
Ideas and theories that are popular at the time
Prevailing ideologies
The health of the population as a whole
Public Health
Support given to paupers to enable them to maintain a basic standard of living
Relief
