What were the pressures for further change/reform?
Cholera Epidemic
Louis Pasteur
Th 1869 Royal Commission on Public Health
The Reform Act 1867
The 1872 Public Health Act
1871; Local Government Board was set up
A 3rd choler epidemic in 1865-6 in whihc 20,000 people died
1865; conclusively proved that germs caused disease and were not caused byt it
revealed that conditions revealed that conditiosn in towns were little better than when chadwick had been masterminding investigations some 30 years earlier
Consolidated the function of the Local Government Act Office
ensured the whole country was covered authorities
Effectively gave the vote to working men in towns
Ergo polititons had to pay attention to ther problems which included public health
Registras General Office
Medical Department of the Privy Council
Poor Law Board
Their sanitary duties were made compulsory and they each had to appoint a medical officer of health
