the beginnings of reform

Question 1

first public health act

Answer 1

1848
This caused the setting up of a Board of Health, and gave towns the right to appoint a Medical Officer of Health. These Boards of Health were to oversee standards of health, hygiene and public health. But improvements varied and were not compulsory. Standards of public health were still often very poor. They were disbanded in 1858

Question 2

second public health act

Answer 2

compulsory version of the first act
This enforced laws about slum clearance, provision of sewers and clean water, and the removal of nuisances. It made improvements compulsory for local council authorities.

Question 3

benjamin disraeli

Answer 3

introduced governmental acts to improve public health
artisans dwelling act 1875
councils could buys slums in order to clear them and rebuild them.
food and drugs act 1875
quality control of foods on sale (not impure/unsafe, shopkeepers couldn’t add anything like flour to the food to make it heavier.
river pollution act 1876

Question 4

joseph chamberlain

Answer 4

Liberal mayor of Birmingham in the 1870s he led slum clearances, improvements to the water supply, new town planning and the building of suburbs, libraries, swimming pools, schools and parks in the slum area replaced by the Corporation Street he massively cut the death rate.

Question 5

Model villages

Answer 5

enclosed villages built by industrialists and philanthropists for their workers
Port sunlight: built for workers at levers soap factory
on the wirral near liverpool. Between 1888 and 1914 it was built and used by workers. Lever saw it as his Christian duty to help the lives of his workers by building good houses, a theatre.

Bournville - Birmingham built by the cadbury family for workers