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The Public Health Movement in Victorian England, 1831-1875

In early Victorian England, a coalition of men of Government and the local community established a centralized and uniform policy toward public health. The long and arduous campaign (1831-1875) for public health impelled the need to solve the serious social, political and economic problems spawned by the Industrial Revolution. This study concludes that Britain's leaders came to believe that Government indeed had an obligation to redress grievances created by injustice, a decision which meant the rejection of laissez-faire. Through legislation based on long study, Parliament consolidated the work of sanitation authorities, trained medical officers, and essential environmental improvements. The public sanitation program soon decreased the mortality rate by breaking the frequent cycle of cholera, typhoid, typhus, and dysentery plagues, all this notwithstanding that no doctor of that age knew that bacteria and viruses caused disease.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc501199
Date12 1900
CreatorsHopkins, Renee Anderson
ContributorsNichols, Irby Coghill, 1926-, Scroggs, Jack B., 1919-
PublisherNorth Texas State University
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formativ, 82 leaves, Text
CoverageEngland, 1831-1875
RightsPublic, Hopkins, Renee Anderson, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

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