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Discuss the work of Edwin Chadwick – Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population in Great Britain. What did he find and recommend? Was there any opposition to his recommendations? From whom and why? What sanitation/public health measures were later introduced Public Health Act 1848.

You must begin with a clear introduction that clearly states the content of your essay and the overall aims, objectives and argument of the essay. Then provide some background detail as to the developments in the Nineteenth Century – what was life like in the 19th Century? Discuss living conditions and diseases – cholera, small […]