Why government started improve healthcare

Question 1

Social reformers

Answer 1

Both rowntree and booth wrote books on the problems of poverty amoung the working classes
Rowntree in York and booth in London

Question 2

What did rowntree and booth both believe

Answer 2

That circumstances of the 19th century hadn’t improved and people were very poor and unable to feed or water themselves

Question 3

Who was rowntree a close friend of

Answer 3

David Lloyd George

Question 4

Idealism

Answer 4

David Lloyd had grown up poor
Believed it was morally right to tax the rich to help the poor as he knew how hard it was to get out of poverty

Question 5

Who was sir William beveridge

Answer 5

A man commissioned to write a report on societies problems and identified 5 major problems in the uk holding people back

Question 6

What were William beveridges 5 giant evils

Answer 6

Squalor
Ignorance
Want
Idleness
Disease

Question 7

What were William beveridges recommendations

Answer 7

Creation of the NHS
Free for everyone that pays taxes
Doctors and nurses employed by the government
Created in 1948