Poor Law 1834

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Poor law 1834

The poor law act, is about people who have no money and nowhere to live so this is when they will have been recruited in to a working house. This is where they will work for money but during this they will have poor accommodation to live, while they work there and poor food that they may not be able to have. They will have to work hard for a living to get money.  In the working house they will not be seeing their families at all while the work they will be split up from each other.

When you are working in the workhouse they will catch disease that may make someone ill and have a course to death, they also will not have the health are that other people will have. They will be also working in horrible conditions.  

Edwin Chadwick 1842

The report of Edwin Chadwick says that he is reinforcing to the poor law, in the year of 1842 he wrote” a sanitary Report of the labouring population” this is promoting the safeness and the disposal of human waste and the rubbish that they may have. This is a mass evident linking the environment and ill health. Edwin Chadwick has recommended support by the medical and the engineering specialist and to be responsible of all the sentry matters.

The facts a figures that are the population in Glasgow is 37% and the housing growth is 18.5%. In Manchester and this time was the population of 47% and the housing growth was 15% and last but not least Bradford the population there was 78% and the housing growth rate was 12%

First public Health Act 1848

The first public health act stated that the rapid growth of towns and cities due the industrialisation and the grown of the industries. This is also to do with the environment around them, this is also to do with where they live and where the medical care is. The act states that the year of 1848 the central of health was created and then stopped 10 years later. Then this when it change for the better. This is when the hospital staff and the health protection will take place.  

This is the foundation of the Central board of health thy will also be in charge of the water supplies and this is among other things. Town and cities have had the permission to have Local Broad Health.    

John Snow 1854

John Snow was a medical practitioner and he was a founding father of the community health and he was a strong supporter of hygiene and cleanliness. In the 1854 he was detected the documentation of a Cholera outbreak to the pollute. The British doctor John Snow couldn’t convince other doctors and scientists that cholera, a deadly disease, was spread when people.

Victorian Sanitary Reform Movement 1872

The Victorian Sanitary Reform Movement is about the poor sanitary conditions, this will lead to an outbreak of Cholera, and this is a condition that has been reported around the South Africa and North Africa mainly. This was in the years of 1831, 1848, 1853 and 1866. The Chadwick Reports his attention to the sanitary condition.

This is liked to health and the priority and the environment. The Victorian ages has often been called “the age of Reform” and most of the legislation that passed through parliament at the time