The Health of Towns Association was formed in 1844 as a cross party political pressure group. its aim was simple. it wanted to put pressure on the government to introduce legislation that would improve the quality of public health in Britain’s towns and cities.<\/p>\n
The association came about at a time when the government was investigating the conditions in towns. Chadwick had been comissioned to report on the conditions of the labouring classes within the 50 largest towns in the country. However there was still a reluctance within government to implement reform. The notion of laissez-Faire was one that many members of parliament firmly believed in.<\/p>\n
The association placed pressure through use of its members political links. For example, they submitted 100 pages of comment on the findings of Chadwick. They then placed pressure on government to implement legislation that would require action to be taken.<\/p>\n
Source 1<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cI can assure hon. Members … if they read the accounts of the loss and waste of health, and life, and happiness and strength, which are going on\u2014not within the portion of society possessed of the means of ease, or persons in the sphere in which we generally move, but persons whose lot is cast in hardships and privations\u2014hardworking mechanics and labourers, living in toil and suffering\u2014if hon. Members had the opportunities of ascertaining the sufferings of those persons from the want of sanitary regulations, they would not object.\u201d Lord Morpeth. Hansard\u2019s Parliamentary Debates 3rd series, 93 1847 Jun 18, 738-9. cited on http:\/\/www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov\/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1113797<\/a><\/p>\n Members of Parliament like Lord Morpeth were opposed though, for example:<\/p>\n Source 2<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThe people were clever enough to manage their own affairs\u201d \u201cThere was a mania now for sanitary measures. In fact, there was an insanity in sanity.\u201d A Muntz. Hansard\u2019s Parliamentary Debates 3rd series, 93 1847 Jun 18, 750. cited on http:\/\/www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov\/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1113797<\/a><\/p>\n The result of the Associations pressure, and the findings of Chadwick, were the 1848 Public Health Act.<\/p>\n Impact of new machines<\/a> – Workhouses in Bradford and Leeds<\/a> – Typhoid outbreaks 1830 – 1836<\/a> – Cholera, 1831 Outbreak<\/a> – Poor Law Commission [1834, Report 1837]<\/a> – Poor Law Commission 1835<\/a> – Bradford Woolcombers Report, 1837<\/a> – Report on the conditions of workers in Leeds, 1842<\/a> – Report on the sanitary Condition of the Labouring Classes, Chadwick 1842<\/a> – Health of Towns Association, 1844<\/a> – Health in Bradford in the mid 1840’s<\/a> – Health in Manchester, 1844<\/a> – Public Health Act, 1848<\/a> – Working Conditions in Bradford, 1850<\/a> – Census figures: UK Population statistics 1831 – 1851<\/a> – John Snow’s work on Cholera, 1854<\/a> – Nightingale School of Nursing<\/a> – Bradford Sewage Works, 1862<\/a> – Louis Pasteur: Germ Theory, 1865<\/a> – Second Reform Act [External]<\/a> – Royal Sanitary Commission, 1869<\/a> – The Public Health Act, 1872 [External]<\/a> – Public Health Act, 1875 [External]<\/a> – Artizans and Labourers’ Dwellings Improvement Act, 1875 [External]<\/a> – Tuberculosis Germ identified by Robert Koch, 1882<\/a> – Cholera Germ identified, 1883<\/a> – Health in Bradford, Margaret McMillan’s Report, 1890<\/a> – Report into the health of Children in Bradford, 1907<\/a> –\u00a0Timeline of Public Health over time<\/a> –\u00a0Medicine and Treatments c1350-2018<\/a> –\u00a0Themes in Medical History<\/a><\/p>\n Resources for Medicine Through Time<\/a> –\u00a0Prehistoric Medicine<\/a> –\u00a0Ancient Egyptian Medicine<\/a> –\u00a0Ancient Greek Medicine<\/a> –\u00a0Medicine in the Roman Empire<\/a> –\u00a0Medieval Medicine<\/a> –\u00a0Renaissance Medicine<\/a> –\u00a0Public Health in the Industrial Revolution<\/a> –\u00a0Fight against infectious disease<\/a> –\u00a0Modern Medicine<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Health of Towns Association The Health of Towns Association was formed in 1844 as a cross party political pressure group. its aim was simple. it wanted to put pressure on the government to introduce legislation that would improve the quality of public health in Britain’s towns and cities. The association came about at a… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3709,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":100,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3723","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\tPublic Health in the Industrial Revolution<\/a><\/h4>\n
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