public health measures

• public health measures in 20th century 


  -more effective control & local government with necessary power to pass & enforce laws to a range of improvements in public health & quality of the environment
• examples of improvements 


  -housing > better ventilation, less overcrowded, drier

  -purer drinking water

  -laws combatting the adulteration of food & drink

  -the pasteurisation of milk

  -improved sewage disposal methods