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The 1848 Public Health Act - UK Parliament
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The 1848 Public Health Act was the first step on the road to improved public health. One of the individuals who played an important role in its creation was Edwin Chadwick, a social reformer. Edwin Chadwick was one of the architects of the 1834 Poor Law, which was based on the principle that making the provision of poor relief so unpleasant would put off all but the most desperate.
https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/towncountry/towns/tyne-and-wear-case-study/about-the-group/public-administration/the-1848-public-health-act/
1848 Public Health Bill debates - UK Parliament
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These extracts are taken from debates which took place in the House of Commons Chamber and demonstrate the different views of MPs towards the Public Health Bill. The 1848 Public Health Act was an important step in the improvement of the nation's health and helped increase government and social consciousness about hygiene and living conditions.
https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/livinglearning/coll-9-health1/health-05/
PUBLIC HEALTH ACT OF 1848. (Hansard, 9 March 1853)
Hansard
§Motion made, and Question proposed— That Returns of all places which have petitioned the General Board of Health for the application of the Public Health Act, 1848, with the dates when such Petitions were received, distinguishing the towns where Provisional Orders have been confirmed, and where Orders in Council have been issued, with the ...
https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1853/mar/09/public-health-act-of-1848
PUBLIC HEALTH BILL—ADJOURNED DEBATE. (Hansard, 8 May 1848)
Hansard
PUBLIC HEALTH BILL—ADJOURNED DEBATE. (Hansard, 8 May 1848) Search Help. HANSARD 1803–2005 → 1840s → 1848 → May 1848 → 8 May 1848 → Commons Sitting ... § On Clause 1— "Act may from time to time be applied to any part of England and Wales except city of London," &c.
https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1848/may/08/public-health-bill-adjourned-debate
Public Health Bill - Hansard - UK Parliament
07-08-48 Hansard
On Clause 8 (on the petition of not less than one-tenth of the inhabitants rated to the relief of the poor, the General Board of Health may, if and when they shall think fit, direct a superintending inspector to visit such city, town, borough, parish, or place, and to make public inquiry, and to examine witnesses, as to the sewerage, drainage, and supply of water, the state of the burial ...
https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/1848-08-07/debates/b8b91876-2fb5-4f83-938b-b6d6476517b7/PublicHealthBill
Key dates - UK Parliament
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1848 - Public Health Act Establishes a General Board of Health, marking the first acceptance by government of responsibility for the health of the population . 1872 - Public Health Act Appointment of medical officers is made compulsory in urban areas . 1875 - Public Health Act Establishes a coherent administrative machinery to deal locally with ...
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The 1848 Public Health Act - UK Parliament
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The 1848 Public Health Act was the first step on the road to improved public health. One of the individuals who played an important role in its creation was Edwin Chadwick, a social reformer. Edwin Chadwick was one of the architects of the 1834 Poor Law, which was based on the principle that making the provision of poor relief so unpleasant would put off all but the most desperate.
https://webtest.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/towncountry/towns/tyne-and-wear-case-study/about-the-group/public-administration/the-1848-public-health-act/
1848 Public Health Bill debates - UK Parliament
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These extracts are taken from debates which took place in the House of Commons Chamber and demonstrate the different views of MPs towards the Public Health Bill. The 1848 Public Health Act was an important step in the improvement of the nation's health and helped increase government and social consciousness about hygiene and living conditions.
https://webtest.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/livinglearning/coll-9-health1/health-05/
Public Health Bill - Hansard - UK Parliament
18-05-48 Hansard
Commons: 18 May 1848; Commons Chamber; Public Health Bill; Public Health Bill Volume 98: debated on Thursday 18 May 1848 May 18 ... On the Motion that the Speaker do leave the chair to go into Committee on the Public Health Bill, COLONEL SIBTHORP said, that he had already announced his intention to oppose the present Bill in every stage of its ...
https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/1848-05-18/debates/9f4160cf-0d4a-4d60-91ee-078fa1aa3b37/PublicHealthBill
Public Health Act Of 1848 - Hansard - UK Parliament
09-03-53 Hansard
Motion made, and Question proposed— "That Returns of all places which have petitioned the General Board of Health for the application of the Public Health Act, 1848, with the dates when such Petitions were received, distinguishing the towns where Provisional Orders have been confirmed, and where Orders in Council have been issued, with the dates of such Provisional Order and Orders in ...
https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/1853-03-09/debates/94f83c03-28bf-4807-89d5-f76f8c2decb2/PublicHealthActOf1848
PUBLIC HEALTH BILL. (Hansard, 7 August 1848)
Hansard
PUBLIC HEALTH BILL. (Hansard, 7 August 1848) ... The proportion of twenty-three to 1,000 would afford security that the Act would not be put into operation 1175 except in cases where there was such a manifest amount of unhealthiness indicated by the high rate of mortality, that no persons possessed of the ordinary feelings of humanity would ...
https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1848/aug/07/public-health-bill
PUBLIC HEALTH BILL (Hansard, 5 May 1848) - api.parliament.uk
Hansard
HC Deb 05 May 1848 vol 98 cc710-43 710 § On the question that the Speaker do leave the Chair for the House to go into Committee on the Health of Towns Bill, § COLONEL SIBTHORP observed that he had always entertained a strong objection to that measure, however much he might respect the noble Lord (Viscount Morpeth) who introduced it. It was a Bill containing no less than 153 clauses, yet, in ...
https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1848/may/05/public-health-bill
Public Administration - UK Parliament
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The 1848 Public Health Act was the first step on the road to improved public health. 1837 Early By-Laws in Sunderland ind out about early attempts in Sunderland to improve public health in the town. In this section. Death, Dirt and Disease Public Administration ...
https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/towncountry/towns/tyne-and-wear-case-study/about-the-group/public-administration/
Victorian towns, cities and slums - UK Parliament
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A similar Act of 1890 greatly extended these provisions and by 1904 some 80 towns had borrowed £4.5 million. ... The House of Commons debates the Second Reading of the Public Health Bill 1848. Public Health Bill 1848 (21 February 1848) Did you know? The 1894 London Building Act embodied the first thoroughly effective building code regulating ...
https://webtest.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/towncountry/towns/overview/towns/
Public Health Bill - Hansard - UK Parliament
30-06-48 Hansard
The evidence collected by the Sanitary Commission showed that frightful disease and mortality prevailed in the manufacturing districts owing to the non-adoption of precautions for the preservation of health. There was ample evidence that the fatal disease of cholera was aggravated, if not caused, by sewers and standing waters; and when these were removed or freed from their noxious influences ...
https://hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/1848-06-30/debates/aff4de56-ac93-4fde-8486-a7c015da0efc/PublicHealthBill
The Public Health Act (1848) Amendment Bill - UK Parliament
22-04-58 Hansard
The Public Health Act of 1848 constituted certain officers, of whom the head was the Chief Commissioner of Works, as a General Board of Health for five years. That General Board, exercising the powers conferred upon them by the Act, called into existence local boards, in various towns throughout the country, and then became to those boards ...
https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/1858-04-22/debates/ec8c05ad-184d-4e46-abab-22827c0f4d08/ThePublicHealthAct(1848)AmendmentBill
Public Health Act 1848 (Hansard) - api.parliament.uk
Hansard
List of mentions of the Public Health Act 1848 in Parliament in the period 1803 to 2005. Search Help. HANSARD 1803–2005 → Acts (P) Public Health Act 1848 [36 other Acts called Public Health Act] Section Mentions House Date; PUBLIC GENERAL ACTS. 1: Commons: 1850-08-15: METROPOLITAN BURIALS BILL. ...
https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/acts/public-health-act-1848
PUBLIC HEALTH ACT (1848) AMEND MENT. (Hansard, 14 July 1857)
Hansard
PUBLIC HEALTH ACT (1848) AMEND MENT. HC Deb 14 July 1857 vol 146 cc1506-8 1506. MR. COWPER, in moving for leave to bring in a Bill to amend the Public Health Act, 1848, and to make further provisions for Town Improvement, said, that he should have brought the question before 1507 the House at an earlier period of the Session, but it was thought ...
https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1857/jul/14/public-health-act-1848-amend-ment
Public Health Act (1848) Amendment - Hansard - UK Parliament
14-07-57 Hansard
Hansard record of the item : 'Public Health Act (1848) Amendment' on Tuesday 14 July 1857.
https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/1857-07-14/debates/9cf49e00-3abd-4622-adc8-3d49e876ef66/PublicHealthAct(1848)Amendment
Public Health Act (1848) Amendment Bill - Hansard - UK Parliament
04-02-58 Hansard
Hansard record of the item : 'Public Health Act (1848) Amendment Bill' on Thursday 4 February 1858. ... He thought that the Board of Health had been dead and buried, but now it was proposed to continue it for a period of five years. He trusted that a longer time would be given for considering the provisions of the Bill.
https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/1858-02-04/debates/9c84ff1d-2d18-4e4a-98f8-28d0f3abbd89/PublicHealthAct(1848)AmendmentBill
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