Q4 - Government, Individuals and War on development of public health

Question 1

Structure of the question

Answer 1

3 x PEEL , Point evidence explanation and links with judgement

Question 2

How to answer

Answer 2

Explain the factor using examples from 3 - 4 different time periods, explain how a second and third factor affected the issue, Make a judgement to decide which factor is most important and use links

Question 3

Things to remember from exam question

Answer 3

Develop links, rank even more, more dates/facts/figures

Question 4

Government early modern

Answer 4

The great plague led to the government banning public entertainment, quarantining victims, clearing rubbish from streets, no strangers allowed in towns without certificate of health

Question 5

Government 19th century

Answer 5

In 1958 the government turned to Bazalgette and he built 83 miles of sewers in London - removing 420 million gallons a day

Question 6

Government 20th century

Answer 6

The labour government set up the NHS in 1948, Hospitals free at the point of delivery and cradle to grave care paid via taxation - life expectancy increased 17 years for women and 13 years for men

Question 7

Individuals medieval

Answer 7

In 1421 the mayor of Coventry said that everyone had to clean the street in front of their house or they would be fined 12 pennies, waste collections were sold to farmers and all waste was banned from rivers for clean water but this wasn’t national government

Question 8

Individuals 19th century

Answer 8

Edwin Chadwick was the secretary for the poor law commission - investigated the link between ill health and poverty,He wrote the “Report on the sanitary conditions of the labouring population” and helped set up the clean party which pushed the government to improve towns conditions, helping pass the public health act

Question 9

Individuals 20th century

Answer 9

William Beveridge wrote the 1942 beveridge report that the people deserve to be free of the five giants of poverty - disease, want, ignorance, idleness, squalor. He said that the government should care for people and his report sold 100,000 copies

Question 10

War medieval

Answer 10

In the crusades 1100-1300, Christians came into contact with more advanced Islamic medical texts and they bought the ideas back with them, Things such as better medicines and better hygiene and cleanliness

Question 11

War 19th century

Answer 11

The Boer war showed that 40% of all people that volunteered and in some cities 90% were not fit to serve because of bad health

Question 12

War 20th century

Answer 12

WWII meant that more vegetables were grown, people felt like after what they had been through they deserved better living conditions, slum areas were destroyed by bombers - giving a chance to rebuild and the conditions left led to the beverage report which led to the welfare state and the NHS

Question 13

Overall links / judgement

Answer 13

The government has been the people physically putting the changes into action but only after being firmly shown evidence and shown change was needed by individuals, war led to some of these figures and motivating forces the individuals needed so overall they all work together to develop public health in Britain but I think that individuals had the biggest role to play because without them the government would sit stagnant with no or certainly much less development.