Factors Affecting the Development of Public Health
Medieval/ Middle Ages 1000-1450 Early Modern 19th century
1450-1800 1801-1900
War Crimean War – Florence Nightingale cleaned up h
and inspired her for cleaning hospitals in England
return.
Boer War – 40% of volunteers were unfit to fight
poor health – put country at risk if couldn’t have
soldiers so the government began to realise it m
action to improve public health – led to Liberal r
Individuals Thomas Coram – set up the Foundling Hospital to care John Snow - he was a surgeon in Broad Street, Lo
for babies at risk of abandonment. Funded by 1854 proved that cholera was caught through co
donations, concerts held in order to raise money. – direct contact with a cholera sufferer – in this c
Proved so popular a lottery was held for babies that through drinking a victim’s diarrhoea which cont
would go there! the disease. Supported Chadwick’s findings on n
clean water.
Joseph Bazalgette – after the Great Stink of 1858
was commissioned by the government to build 8
of sewers in London which cost £3 million. Chole
not return to London once the sewers were com
1839-42 – Edwin Chadwick headed an inquiry, wh
paid for, into living conditions in Britain. It showed
appalling living conditions of the poor across Brita
said they were not to blame for this – they were t
in poverty. He put pressure on the government fo
cleaner streets and clean water. This led to 1848
Health Act.
Medieval/ Middle Ages 1000-1450 Early Modern 19th century
1450-1800 1801-1900
War Crimean War – Florence Nightingale cleaned up h
and inspired her for cleaning hospitals in England
return.
Boer War – 40% of volunteers were unfit to fight
poor health – put country at risk if couldn’t have
soldiers so the government began to realise it m
action to improve public health – led to Liberal r
Individuals Thomas Coram – set up the Foundling Hospital to care John Snow - he was a surgeon in Broad Street, Lo
for babies at risk of abandonment. Funded by 1854 proved that cholera was caught through co
donations, concerts held in order to raise money. – direct contact with a cholera sufferer – in this c
Proved so popular a lottery was held for babies that through drinking a victim’s diarrhoea which cont
would go there! the disease. Supported Chadwick’s findings on n
clean water.
Joseph Bazalgette – after the Great Stink of 1858
was commissioned by the government to build 8
of sewers in London which cost £3 million. Chole
not return to London once the sewers were com
1839-42 – Edwin Chadwick headed an inquiry, wh
paid for, into living conditions in Britain. It showed
appalling living conditions of the poor across Brita
said they were not to blame for this – they were t
in poverty. He put pressure on the government fo
cleaner streets and clean water. This led to 1848
Health Act.
