(PUBLIC HEALTH/1840S/ACT 1848)

Question 1

What was the industrial revolution?

Answer 1

The RAPID development of FACTORIES and increased job PROSPECTS in cities led to many MIGRATING into industrial CITIES

Question 2

What was a negative effect of the industrial revolution?

Answer 2

To keep up with the demand for houses, Landlords quickly built basic and poorly built homes

Question 3

Why did landlords build rubbish houses?

Answer 3

They knew the factory workers wouldn’t pay much rent so they kept houses poor in quality

Question 4

What were courts?

Answer 4

Groups of houses in poor areas were arranged in dark,narrow streets were called courts

Question 5

How were the living conditions in the industrial towns conditions ?

Answer 5

1 family to a room:50 to a house

Question 6

How many people shared privies?(wooden seat over a cesspool)

Answer 6

A privy would be used by 100 people

Question 7

How was the water supply like in industrial towns?

Answer 7

Water collected from a local pump shared by 20-30 families

Question 8

What killer diseases were around?Prevention?Treatments?

Answer 8

Despite their being a vaccine for small pox little people had access to it

Question 9

Name the most prominent killer diseases at the time

Answer 9

CHOLERA, TYPHOID,INFLUENZA,TUBERCULOSIS

Question 10

What were the symptoms of chloera?

Answer 10

Diarrhoea, EXTREME vomiting and death by dehydration, muscle spasms

Question 11

How many people died in the cholera pandemic in the 1930s?

Answer 11

20,000

Question 12

How did the authorities/government deal with cholera?

Answer 12

Because of lack of understanding

=the gov offered prayer days(1848) epidemic
= local authorities suggest smoking tabacoo and burning tar to keep clean

Question 13

What did Doctor Bakers report on the 1830s cholera epidemic reveal about poorer areas?

Answer 13

Some people collected human waste to sell to farmers, the collection of poo in Leeds took 75 cart loads to remove it

Question 14

Who was Edwin Chadwick?

Answer 14

(A social reformer) He was involved in workhouses

Question 15

What did Chadwick do?

Answer 15

Chadwick published a report ‘THE SANITARY CONDITIONS OF THE LABOURING POPULATION’

Question 16

When did Chadwick publish hos report on ‘TSCLP’

Answer 16

1842

Question 17

What did Chadwick’s report suggest?

Answer 17

Spending tax on improving living conditions for the poor =would be more efficient=than letting them become to ill to work= and be supported by the workhouse

Question 18

What did Chadwick recommend?

Answer 18

Clean water and removal of rubbish/sewage

Question 19

Was Chadwick the catalyst for the Public Health Act?

Answer 19

No it was the cholera epidemic of 1848 which began to affect the upperclassmen but he was a reason

Question 20

When was the Public health act set up?

Answer 20

1848

Question 21

What is one term on the PHA 1848?

Answer 21

Appoint 3 commissioners for the Board of health

Question 22

What is a second term on the PHA 1848?

Answer 22

allow towns to set up a their own Local board of health(employ a medical officer,remove sewage/build sewage system)

Question 23

What is third term on the PHA 1848?

Answer 23

Set up a General Board of health

Question 24

Was the PHA 1848 limited?

Answer 24

Yes, it only lasted for 5 years and ended in 1854

Question 25

How else was the act limited?

Answer 25

It was optional so local authorities did not have to improve hygiene, HOWEVER leading towns like Manchester improved conditions

Question 26

What was one other ways improvements in public health were limited in general?

Answer 26

Chadwick was a difficult person ppl did not want to listen to him

and despite over 50,000 dying(1848) attitudes were slow to change,(didn’t want to pay taxes to help the poor)

PLUS no PROVEN link between disease and hygiene