Treatment / Prevention

• Transference

  • Trying to move the disease onto an object
• Prayer

  • Asking God for forgiveness
• Bloodletting used until Germ Theory
• Puring used until Germ Theory
• Public Health Act 1848

  • Set up a central board of health
  • Made councils set up a local board of health
  • Advised
  • New sewer system made due to the Great Stink
• Public Health Act 1875

  • Made as the previous act was ineffective as the government had a laissez-faire attitude
  • Aim was to improve public health
  • This act was more effective as this one was compulsory