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Living Standards 1918-1979 (Housing and Living Standards (Housing Act 1924…
Living Standards 1918-1979
Diets and Physical Wellbeing
Tuberculosis Act 1921 tb falls by 21%
WW1 saw better diets and a fall in alcohol consumption.
[little progress made in healthcare due to the high cost. Working class people can't afford medical so they have to make do]
[working class diets continued to be inferior to the middle/upper class]
[women experienced malnourishment during the hungry 30s in order to give for their husbands and kids]
Housing and Living Standards
Housing Act 1924 money given for 1 million council homes built until 1940
widespread electrification after 1926
3 million new homes built by 1940
More middle class people can buy their own homes
Slum Clearances 1930s
[Working class still couldn't afford own houses]
Incomes and Purchasing Power
Unemployment Act 1934
Helps long term unemployed with extended benefits
1925-35, real wages increase by 18%
Falling no. of children per house = easier purchasing
[Mcdonald cuts benefits by 10%]
[Unemployment at 23% by 1932]
[Unemployment is acute in certain areas i.e the north]
Causes
Great Depression
Medical advances
WW2
New houses to be built as a result of the bombings
Rationing means healthy food
NHS due to collectivism
Cause of the Consumer Boom
Rising real incomes
price of essentials does not rise so people's income power rises
full employment remains the governments priority = more jobs = more money = more spending
consumer credit
growth of advertising
Emergence of Supermarkets