Improvements to Victorian Health Powerpoint

Lesson Snapshot:

• There were some attempts to improve Public Health in the Victorian era.
• There was a built in resistance to government interference though!
• By 1870 local government was taking responsibility for street cleaning and lighting.
• In 1871 the Royal Commission on sanitary matters recommended that ‘the present fragmentary and confused sanitary laws should be made uniform’. This cause the Local Government to be set up.
• In 1866 a cholera outbreak claimed the lives of 20,000 people in Great Britain.
• Smallpox and TB also claimed many lives in that year.
• The government passed the Sanitation Act in 1866 to try and improve public health which forced sanitary regulations in factories.
• Gladstone’s Public Health Act of 1872 established Urban and Rural Sanitary Authorities.
• These were not well funded so were not a great success.
• They had no medical officers in charge of them.

Powerpoint Lesson Plan:

• Aimed at Students studying across UK Year 7,8 & 9 or equivalent
• Premium resource
• Use as you wish in the classroom or home environment
• Structured powerpoint presentation and challenging tasks.
• Complete lesson plan on the improvement to Victorian health between 1865- 1878