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Elizabethan Poor Law (1601) - ANSWERSThe national Poor Law, required each parish to elect Overseers and set a compulsory Poor Rate The Settlement Act (1662) - ANSWERSIndividual relief applicants could be returned to the parish of birth The Settlement Act (1697) - ANSWERSMigrants had to produce a certificate declaring they'd return to own parish if applying for relief Gilbert's Act (1782) - ANSWERSAllowed parishes to combine to build a workhouse for non-able-bodied The Sturges-Bourne Acts (1818-19) - ANSWERSIn voting men to the parish select vestries (distinguished 'deserving'/'undeserving'), the more land owned, the more votes one had Parliamentary Reform Act (1832) - ANSWERSEnfranchised more men (1 in 7), reorganised constituencies for more North/Midlands representation Poor Law Amendment Act (1834) - ANSWERSCentral authority to regulate poor Law; parishes grouped together in unions to build less-eligibility workhouses; outdoor relief to able-bodied discouraged The Vaccination Act (1840) - ANSWERSMedical officers could vaccinate free of charge The General Outdoor Relief Prohibitory Order (1844) - ANSWERSBanned all Outdoor Relief to able-bodied poor Metropolitan Building Act (1844) - ANSWERSRequired all newly-built London building within 30ft of a sewer to be attached to it Baths and Washhouses Act (1846) - ANSWERSEnabled local authorities to use public money to build baths and washhouses Towns Improvement Act (1847) - ANSWERSDefined the rights of towns to control water supply, drainage...etc; legalised sewerage discharge into rivers Metropolitan Commission of Sewers (1848) - ANSWERSBrought London sewer administration under one body (therefore the P.H. Act didn't apply) Public Health Act (1848) - ANSWERSSet up General Board of Health; allowed for local boards of health (if 10% ratepayers requested or death rate 23/1,000+); local boards appointed medical officers of health The Vaccination Act (1853) - ANSWERSMade baby vaccinations within first 3 months compulsory (if not, parents fined £1) Nuisances Removal Act (1855) - ANSWERSEmpowered local authorities to combat nuisances such as filth accumulation with fines/prosecution Public Health Act (1858) - ANSWERSReplaced General Board with Local Government Act Office; established Medical Department of the Privy Council to inspect p.h. projects; local boards could take preventative action Local Government Act (1858) - ANSWERSEstablished the Local Government Act Office Union Chargeability Act (1865) - ANSWERSBrought cost of poor relief within a union under shared responsibility of all parishes within said union Sanitary Act (1866) - ANSWERSThe sanitary powers granted to individual boards under '48 P.H. Act now extended to all boards; authorities forced to remove nuisances; nuisances definition extended to overcrowding; local authorities empowered to improve/demolish slums Artisans' and Labourers' Dwellings (Torren's) Act (1868) - ANSWERSLocal councils could force landlords of unsanitary houses to improve it, if not they'd pull it down Vaccination Act (1871) - ANSWERSObligatory for local health boards to appoint vaccination officers, fined parents who didn't vaccinate babies 25s (or imprisonment) Artisans' and Labourers' Dwellings Improvement (Cross') Act (1875) - ANSWERSExtended council powers to pull down whole districts, not just houses Public Health Act (1875) - ANSWERSEvery part of the country has a local authority with at least 1 medical officer and sanitary inspector; authorities given power to lay sewers, drains...etc. (Government now completely committed to Public Health involvement) Elementary Education (Forster's) Act (1870) - ANSWERSSet up school boards to build/manage schools where there were none, workhouses sent children there Poor Law (Schools) Act (1848) - ANSWERSAllowed unions to combine to build schools separate from workhouses for pauper children Metropolitan Poor Act (1867) - ANSWERSCreated London 'asylum' districts, providing mental hospitals Poor Law Loans Act - ANSWERS Local Government Act (1888) - ANSWERSAll medical officers in towns with over 50,000 people had to be qualified doctors Smallpox Act (1898) - ANSWERSContained a clause that allowed exemptions from the compulsory vaccine Education (Provision of Meals) Act (1906) - ANSWERSProvides free school meals to pauper children, local authorities provided with 50% of the funding Children and Young Persons' Act (1908) - ANSWERSCould prosecute parents for neglect and cruelty; banned children from pubs and smoking cigarettes; set up juvenile courts Old Age Pensions Act (1909) - ANSWERSSet up a national pension scheme for 70yr+ olds, only if haven't claimed poor relief or been in prison in recent years Trade Boards Act (1909) - ANSWERSCreated boards in specific sweated trades (low pay, e.g. Tailoring) to set up legally enforceable minimum wage criteria Labour Exchanges Act (1909) - ANSWERSSet up Labour Exchanges to help the unemployed find work (1913 - 430 set up) National Insurance Act (1911) Part 1 - ANSWERSSupported poor when breadwinner became ill