Public Health

• Medieval public health

  Very crowded and poor housing

  Laissez Faire so no gov action

  The Black Death of 1348

  Human waste in rivers and streets

  Open sewers
• Early modern public health?

  Great Plague of 1665

  Overcrowding and poor housing

  Laissez Faire
• 19th century public health ?

  1848 public health act - not compulsory

  1875 public health act - compulsory

  Cholera outbreaks (1831,1848,1854)

  Bazalgette built new sewerage systems

  Chadwick wrote a report linking poverty and poor health in 1842
• Modern public health?

  Rowntree 1901 york study

  Beveridge 1942 nhs proposal

  Bevan and the NHS

  Slums were cleared, new better houses

  Government prevent disease

  Access to clean water