Poverty and health in Britain 790-1939

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Cards (236)

  • population grew from 13 million to over 31 million
    1781-1871
  • population by 1939
    48 million
  • by 1900 how many people lived in a town

    4 out of 5
  • official censuses held every year from

    1841
  • civil registration of births, deaths and marriages introduced in
    1837
  • Louis Pasteur developed germ theory of disease

    1867
  • cholera epidemics
    1831-32 1848-49 1853-54 1866
  • Joseph Lister develops microscope to magnify 1000 times

    1830
  • Louis Pasteur proves microorganisms exist in the air

    1860
  • The Liverpool cholera riots

    29 may - 8 june 1832
  • government sent 2 medical commissioners to St Petersburg to observe cholera

    1831
  • Cholera Acts
    1832
  • The moral and physical condition of the working classes of Manchester by Dr James Kay
    1832
  • Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain by Edwin Chadwick
    1842
  • Report of the Royal Commission into the Sanitary Condition of Large Towns and Populous Districts

    1844
  • Report of the Bradford Woolcombers Sanitary Committee
    1845
  • average death age of the Bradford Woolcombers society in 1845
    14 years 2 months
  • S-trap invented by Alexander Cummings
    1775
  • building regulations required all new homes to be equipped with a WC
    1850s
  • Thomas William Twyford invents first wash out trap water closet, and later makes sure when flushed, the pan refilled with a small amount of clean water

    1875, 1888
  • John Roe adds flushing gates to sewers

    1842
  • Manchester University develops sewage treatment system

    1912
  • Chelsea Waterworks is first company to install filtration system to purify water from the Thames

    1829
  • The Great Stink
    1858
  • Health of Towns Association established

    1844
  • 2nd Boer War
    1899-1902
  • Representation of the People Act
    1832
  • The Municipal Corporations Act
    1835
  • series of Nuisance Removal Acts
    1846
  • The Baths and Washhouses Act
    1846
  • The Towns Improvement Clauses Act
    1847
  • The Public Health Act
    1848
  • The Local Government Act
    1858
  • Public Health Act 2
    1858
  • 568 local boards of health set up

    1858-68
  • The Sanitary Act
    1866
  • Parliamentary Reform Act gives working men in towns the vote

    1867
  • Louis Pasteur proves germs cause disease not other way around

    1865
  • Royal Commission on public health set up and shows conditions are no better than when Chadwick published his report

    1869
  • Local Government Board set up

    1871