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Britain, Health & the People
Public Health
[16 MARKS] What impacted Public Health?
Bazalgette
1st sewage system in London
After great stink of 1858
Improved public health
To combat Cholera outbreaks
Prohibited because of laissez faire
Beveridge
Beveridge Report (1942)
Led to Bevan's NHS
5 giants - want, squalor, ignorance, idleness & disease
Plague Orders
Red cross isolation
ship quarentine
Plague doctors, watchers - locked in houses, nurses
Abandoning laissez faire
1578
Church
Limited the beliefs and ideas on disease and infection. Galen's work was taught, but incorrect. Never dissected human body. Apes, dogs, and pigs.
Middle Ages
Laissez Faire
Leave it be
Bad public health
People lived in poverty
Booth (1/3 of population lived in poverty. Liberal Social Reforms 1906)
Liberal Social Reforms 1 was not compulsary
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION (1750-1900s)
Liberal Social Reforms
Free School meals
Pension
Unemployment benefit
sick pay
1906-1914
Key individuals
John Hunter
Renaissance (1728-1793)
Self experimentation (syphilis/gonorrhea)
Aneurysm - cut off blood supply, not amputation
Collected specimens + studied
Got people to steal bodies from graves to experiment
Changed gunshot wound treatment - treated like everything else
Trained other surgeons
Faced opposition because of stealing bodies and self-experimentation
Liberal Social Reforms
Costly to the government
Local authorities still didn't provide
The rich opposed supporting the poor
Many exceptions to pension
Plague
Black Death (1348)
40% of the population (1/3)
Fever, buboes,
Believed caused by supernatural
Don't fully know what caused it and why
Jews blamed
Great Plague (1665)
Same symptoms as black death
Plague orders
Caused by supernatural and pets