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At the turn of the nineteenth century, Britain was enduring a period
of rapid change, embodied in the Industrial Revolution. ... Accompanying this economic change was
> outdated legislation and political prerogatives in dire need of reform,
> to adapt to this evolving economy. The 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act was a
> turning point in such legislation, seeking to improve the situation with
> poverty, with key reformer, Edwin Chadwick, being inspired by the
> administrative impetus of the amendment act and the ancillary of
> Registrar-General in
> 1838 to help with public health. ... This is particularly true in relation to property
> policy, which, as will be seen, was an important issue regarding health,
> seen as an encroachment on privacy. ...
> However, in relation to public health, it was clear that such a
> non-interventionist policy could not be championed, particularly when
> the state was putting much pressure on the individual to work in the
> city. ... With this as indication of the symptoms of the problem, the
> death rate represents the actual result; the average age of death for a
> mechanic, or labourer, or farmer was 17 in Manchester, 19 in Leeds, 16
> in Bethnal Green, 15 in Liverpool, but 38 in rural Rutland Increasingly
> in the medical field, doctors were becoming more aware of the effect of
> the environment on the individuals health. ...
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> The problems highlighted previously were the main areas of reform in
> Chadwicks Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring
> Population of Great Britain, published in 1842. However, he looked at
> the doctors conclusions in reverse, believing that sickness caused
> poverty and, in light of the Poor Law Reform (intended to alleviate the
> amount of people seeking help) his impetus was such to have a positive
> effect on the people and economically. ... the Public Health
> enquiries of 1839, the Royal Commissions reports in 1844 and 1845, the
> Public Health Act of 1848 etc. ... An excellent example of the
> aims of the Public Health reform of nineteenth century was that of the
> Chadwick report (1842), and furthermore embodies the problems that many
> reformers faced.
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