Public Health (dates) Flashcards
The NHS was set up
1948
Labour wins the election
1945
The Beveridge Report
1942
School clinics set up
1912
National Insurance Act Part 1
National Insurance Act Part 2
1911
Children and Young Persons Act (Children’s Charter)
Old Age Pensions Act
1908
Free School Medical Inspections
1907
Free School Meals
Liberals win the 1906 election
1906
Booth’s ‘Life and Labour of the People of London’
1902
Rowntree’s ‘Poverty; A Study of Town Life in 1901’ about York
1901
The Labour Party forms
1900
Infectious Disease Act
1889
River Pollution Prevention Act
1876
Food and Drugs Act and 1875 Public Health Act
1875
Artisans Dwelling Act
1875
Representation of Peoples Act - extended voting rights
1867
Sanitary Act
1866
The Great Stink
1858
John Snow removes the handle of the water pump on Broad Street
September 1854
Outbreak of cholera
1854
Snow’s ‘On the Mode of Communication of Cholera’
1849
The 1848 Public Health Act
1848
Chadwick’s ‘The Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population
1842
Robert Baker’s report into conditions in Leeds
1832