Public Health

Describe Key Features

• John Snow's Investigation into Cholera
  • Did not accept that Cholera was airborne (Miasma).
  • 1854 Cholera outbreak in Soho.
  • Identified water pump as source of disease.
  • This was dug three feet from a public cesspit.
  • His theory was not widely accepted until after Pasteur.
• Government since 1948 have tried to prevent illness
  • End of laissez faire.
  • 1948 NHS
  • 1956 Clean Air Act
  • 1970s Single Issue Health Campaign.
  • 2008 HPV Vaccine
  • Healthy living.
• Diseases spreading rapidly in industrial towns during the 19th century.
  • Crowded back to back housing.
  • Did not understand Germ Theory
  • No sanitation.
  • Animals.
  • Laissez-faire attitude.
  • Poor
  • Factories.
  • No real treatment.
• Why people in towns had problems getting fresh water between 1350- 1750.
  • Towns were growing
  • Factory pollution
  • Had to bring water in from outside - water carriers.
  • Contamination from cess-pits.
• How Government have improved public health in period between 1900-45
  • Midwives Act 1902
  • Free Schoool meals 1906
  • National…