dates

• Laissez Faire attitude

  1840s
• Chadwick's 'Sanitary conditions of the labouring population'

  1842
• Public health act

  1848
• John Snow and the broad street pump

  1854
• Great Stink

  1858
• Bazalgette's sewers complete

  1875
• Liberal reforms

  1906-1911
• Beveridge report

  1942
• Rationing, evacuation and EMS

  WW2
• NHS

  1948