Themes - Government Flashcards
Medieval period
What did town councils do to keep streets clean?
What did parliament do to punish people who littered
Town councils introduced laws encouraging people to keep the streets in front of their houses clean and to remove rubbish
Parliament passed a law (1388) which fined people £20 for throwing ‘dung, garbage and entrails’ into ditches, rivers and ponds
Rennaisance period
What differences was the governments approach to a returning disease
Great Plague – more organised approach by the government to deal with the problems e.g. quarantine, stopping trade between infected towns
19th century
What report was released?
What board was set up?
What year was the first public health act?
What year were working class men given the vote
What year was the second public health act
Who and how much where they given to build what
Chadwick Report
Boards of Health set up
1848 – First Public Health Act
1867 – working class men were given the vote
1875 – Second Public Health Act
Bazalgette was given £3 million (£1 billion today) to build sewers in London
20th century
What act in what year gave poor children a free meal
What does NIA stand for and what benefits did it give
What health service was introduced
Who wrote reports
Increased spending on what
1906 – School Meals Act – poor children got a free meal
National Insurance Act – unemployment benefit
Old Age pension introduced
NHS introduced
Reports written by Booth and Rowntree to advise the government
Beveridge Report 1942
Increased spending on research and care e.g. breast and cervical screening programmes
