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public health acts
first public health act
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It was not compulsory It allowed local authorities to clean up their towns rather than to force them to take action
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it included: A General Board of Health which was given powers until 1854 (Chadwick became one of the commissioners), Allowed a local board to set up if 10% of ratepayers wanted one, Forced towns to set up a board of health where the death rate was higher than 23 per 1,000, Allowed boards of health to connect houses to sewers to make sure that houses had a clean supply and to set rates to pay for improvements,
second public health act
it Forced local authorities to provide clean water, proper drainage and sewers as well as to appoint a Medical Officer of health
it Also included: Factory Acts, Regulations of doctors qualifications, Improved Education Building Regulations, Food regulations, Compulsory Vaccination
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small pox vaccination
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Jenners discovery did little to advance medicine as he only found the link between cowpox and small pox and could explain why
the great stink
Smell of exposed sewage as a result of this was so great that parliament could not meet even though they had soaked sheets in disinfectant to prevent the smell
The ‘Great Stink’ persuaded the Metropolitan Board of Works to agree to the new sewage system proposed by Joseph Bazalgette
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Consequently Bazalgette was employed to build the new sewer system which took seven years to complete
By 1865, London had 1,300 miles of sewers
william farr
But later helped prove the work of Snow by collecting statistics for the government on the births, marriages and deaths
From this work, he proved that death rates were much higher in towns and cities than in villages
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robert koch
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he proved that pasteurs work theory was right, that microbes caused disease as well as decay. he identified that specific mircobes that caused TB in 1882 and cholera in 1883
koch developed a new easier way of growing bacteria on agar jelly and also discovered that chemical dyes stained bacteira, which made them easier to see under a microscope
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it took time for most doctors and the british governement to accept the germ theory of disease- even though the real cause of many diseases had been discovered, it didnt yet have an impact on their medical treatment and prevention
louis pasteur
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Louis Pasteur devised a famous experiment to prove that there are micro-organisms caused bacteria or germs which caused disease
germ theory
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these were:The air contains living microorganisms,Microbes are not evenly distributed in the air, Microbes in the air cause decay and Microbes can be killed by heating them
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