The People's Health: Industrial era- Government responses to cholera.

Question 1

what did the government encourage towns to do?

Answer 1

set up local boards of health.

Question 2

what did the local boards of health in towns do?

Answer 2

monitor the spread of the disease advise the local population.

Question 3

what were the issues around the local boards of health?

Answer 3

voluntary and needed to be funded by themselves.

Question 4

what did some boards of health do?

Answer 4

took action to get rid of miasmas by clearing up rubbish and waste from the streets and burned barrels of tar to clear smells.
followed the theory cholera was contagious- quarantines and opening cholera hospitals to isolate victims.