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Teresa Penkert 20th December 2003 Question: By what stages did the state begin to take over responsibility for public health between 1848 and 1875. Previous to the 1848 Public Health Act, Britain had been run by the "laissez faire" attitude. With the Industrial revolution in the first half of the 19th Century, with thousands and thousands of families moving into the towns and cities, accommodation often meant sub dividing existing property and cramming families into attics and cellars. There were no proper sanitary conditions and often just alleys running between houses where filth and excrement just lay in dung heaps. In 1834 Sir Edwin Chadwick submitted a report called "The Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population", this was largely responsible for the passage of the Public Health Act, which established a board of health. There were also many epidemics of cholera which proved that the wealthy were not immune,...

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