Edexcel A Level History - Poverty, Public Health and the State in Britain c.1780-1939 - Breadth 1

Covers content of Breadth 1: The impetus for public health reforms

● The impetus for change, c1780–1939: problems of public
health created by industrialisation; impact of epidemics and
reports on the state of towns and of increasing
understanding about causes of disease (key development:
the cholera epidemic 1832); the significance of advances in
technology for improvements in the provision of systems for
drainage and water supply.
● Changes in the attitudes of public, press and parliament to
public health issues, c1780–1939, and the reasons for
them; the growth of the government’s role in the
nineteenth and early twentieth century