Report Investigations an Enquiries Flashcards
What was James Kay one of first people to do?
Demonstrate the connection between dirt and disease aswell as dirt and diet affected health of working people plus threw into the equation condition of poor
What was Dr James Kay’s report?
The moral and physical condition of the working classes employed in the cotton manufacture of Manchester 1832
The connection between poor law and public health?
Edwin Chadwick argued that because disease cause pauperism, the preventative of disease and so the prevention of pauperism did fall within competence of poor law guardians
Commissioners agreed with Chadwick so he authorised pilot study what doctors did he choose?
Neil Arnott, James Kay, Southwood smith
What conclusions did the three doctor on chadwicks investigation conclude?
Healthy conditions couldn’t be achieved under existing conditions
Personal habits of people were less important than overcrowding, inadequate wage supply and poor ventilation etc
Chadwick had ammunition to make full scale poor law enquiry to cover whole country however…
Poor law refused to publish it as it criticised water companies and medical profession etc so had it published in 1942 under own name
What was chadwicks report called?
Report on sanitary condition of the labouring population of Great Britain 1842
What did his chadwicks report say?
Attacked inadequacy of water supplies, sewage systems etc
Pointed finger at vested interests- stood in way
Stressed the connection between overcrowding, epidemics and death
Chadwicks published report did no moe public so what did he do?
Set propaganda campaign to raise public awareness. In 1844 known as Health of towns association organises mainly by Southwood smith
