Government

Cards (2)

  • Local councils
    • Introduced laws encouraging people to remove rubbish from the streets
  • Government
    • Supported Jenner's inoculation
    • Quarantine laws introduced to try and stop the Great Plague from spreading
    • Public Health Acts 1848 & 1875 introduced to improve living conditions
    • Compulsory vaccination programme
    • Individuals (liked Edwin Chadwick) given funding to investigate public health
    • Vaccination programmes
    • Reports written by Booth & Rowntree to advise the government
    • Liberal reforms (eg. Pensions Act, National Insurance, unemployment benefit, sickness pay, School Meals)
    • Slum Clearance Programme
    • 1942 Beveridge Report
    • Creation of the NHS