The work of chadwick

• the poor laws stated that local authorities had to provide workhouses and support Widows and orphans. This was becoming increasingly expensive as more and more people were becoming ill.
• The government asked Edwin Chadwick, secretary of the poor law comission to lead an inquiry into sanitary conditions in the whole of Britain
• in 1842, His Report on the sanitary condition of the labouring population of Great britain found that the life expectancy of someone who lived in cities was much lower than someone in the countryside. e.g.: in Liverpool it was just 15 years for laborours, but in Rutland it was 38.
• Chadwick's main recommendations were to:

  • provide clean water
  • collect rubbish from houses and streets
  • Improve drainage
  • Appoint medicals Officers