Public Health 19-20th Century Flashcards
1918
Government set a target to build half a million homes by 1933 after soldiers needed ‘homes fit for heroes’.
1919
A ministry of health was set up to look after sanitation, healthcare and disease, as well as training doctors, nurses and dentists, and maternity and children’s welfare.
1921
Local authorities were required to set up TB sanatoria.
1934
Free school milk act and encouraged local councils to give poor children free school meals.
1942
During WWII, people needed something to fight for. Beveridge recommended a Welfare State which would provide social security, free education, council housing and full employment.
1946
The New Towns Act planner new towns to replace inner city slums.
1947
The Planning Act of 1947 set a target of 300,000 new homes a year, and identified green belts.
Start day for the NHS
5th July 1948.
1956
Clean Air Act reduced smog and imposed smokeless zones in cities.
1980
The Black Report stated that huge inequalities in health still existed between the rich and the poor in Britain.
Recent worries?
Cost of the NHS.
1842
Edwin Chadwick suggested that disease was the main cause of poverty, preventing disease would reduce the numbers in poverty.
1848 (ch)
A cholera epidemic terrified the government into doing something about the prevention of diseases.
What were the first public health ideas based upon?
The idea that disease was caused by miasma.
1848 (ph)
First public health act set up a board of health and gave the towns the right to appoint a medical officer of health.
1853
Vaccination against smallpox became compulsory.
1854
Improvements in hospital hygiene were introduced due to Florence Nightingale.
1875
Second Public Health Act enforce laws about slum clearance, provision of sewers and clean water, and the removal of nuisances.
Why did the public health measured in the late 19C benefit people so much?
Towns were competing with each other to provide the best public health.
1906
Free school meals for poor.
1907
School medical examinations ordered for all children.
1908
Old Age Pensions introduced.
1911
National insurance (free medical treatment for workers who felt ill) was introduced.
