Timeline

• 1782


  Gilberts Act
• 1789


  Bentham's AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PRINCIPLES OF MORALS published
• 1796


  Jenner's first cow pox vaccination
• 1819


  Sturges Bourne Act
• 1830


  - Whig Government Act

  - Swing Riots start
• 1831


  - First cholera epidemic

  — Central Board of Health set up
• 1832


  Representations of the People Act
• 1834


  - Poor Law Amendment Act

  - Poor Law Commission set up
• 1835


  Municipal Corporations Act
• 1837


  - Oliver Twist published

  - Civil Registration introduced

  - Typhus epidemic in London
• 1837-40


  Small pox epidemic kills 42,000
• 1840


  - 42,000 dead from smallpox

  - Permissive Vaccination Act
• 1842


  Chadwick's Report on the Sanitary conditions of the Labouring Population is published
• 1845


  Andover Workhouse scandal
• 1846


  Baths and Washhouses Act
• 1847


  Poor Law Board replaces Poor Law Commission
• 1848


  - Second Cholera epidemic

  - 1st Public Health Act
• 1849


  Henry Mayhew's London Labour and the London poor published
• 1853


  - Third cholera epidemic

  - Vaccination Act (compulsory)

  - John Snow states that cholera is a water borne disease
• 1858


  The Great Stink
• 1859


  Samuel Smile's Self Help is published
• 1860


  Louis Pasteur developed germ theory
• 1865


  Bazalgette's sewerage system opens
• 1866


  Sanitary Act
• 1867


  Parliamentary Reform Act
• 1869


  - Charity Organistion Society set up

  - Formation of Leicester Anti-vaccination League
• 1870-73


  Small pox epidemic kills 44,000
• 1870


  Medical profession accepts cholera is waterborne
• 1871


  - Local government Board takes on responsibility for administration of the Poor Law

  - Vaccination Act (more draconian measures for failing to get child vaxxed)
• 1875


  Public Health Act
• 1903


  - Letchworth Garden City founded

  - Charles Booth's inquiry into the life and labour of the people of London published
• 1905


  Royal commission of the poor laws established
• 1906


  - Liberal party win the general election

  - Education (Provision of Meals) Act
• 1907


  Education (administration provision) act
• 1909


  - Royal commission published majority and minority reports

  - Old Age Pensions Act

  - Trade Boards Act

  - Labour exchanges act
• 1911


  National Insurance Act
• 1918


  Marie Stopes Married love published
• 1929


  Wall Street Crash (Great Depression)
• 1934


  - Special Areas Act

  - Unemployment Act
• 1936


  - Jarrow March

  - 4TH Public Health Act