Events
Cards (10)
- 1831 - the first cholera outbreak, 50,000 dead, cemeteries closed due to being full, no cure or understanding for the cause
- Chadwick report (1842) - found that poor sanitation was linked with disease, recommended better drainage systems and clean water supply
- 1848 public health act didn’t really do much because only 19 out of hundreds of councils took action, and there were two lot outbreaks in 1854 and 1866
- Outbreaks in:18311837183818541866
- 1831 - first outbreak
- 1837 - outbreak
- 1838 - outbreak
- 1842 - Chadwick report
- 1848 - first public health act
- 1854 - outbreak
- 1854 - john snow and the broad street pump
- 1858 - great stink
- 1858 - funding for bazalgettes sewers
- 1866 - outbreak
- 1875 - second public health act
- People thought that the government had no right to meddle with peoples lives, so a lassez -faire approach was adopted until the great stink in 1858 forced them to do something
- The great stink happened due to a heatwave in London, and the Thames dried up, leaving raw sewage and waste rotting in the sun
- The government paid joseph bazalgette to build a sewer system in London, still in place today
- Second public health act in 1875 made the upkeep and covering of sewers mandator, a supply of fresh water necessary and the illumination of streets required as well
- The second public health act was passed just after the working class men got the vote, meaning that the work of John snow and Pasteur germ theory had been listened to