Public Health in the 1800s (1 janv. 1800 – 1 janv. 1850)

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During the first half of the 1800s, the public health of the UK was massively underachieving. For many people, their living and working conditions had grown worse because to the rapid growth of towns and cities due to the Industrial Revolution. As the population increased, people flocked to towns and cities to find work, which resulted in massive overcrowding. Workers had to live close to factories, so houses were built rapidly and crammed together. Whole neighbourhoods had to share privies, water pumps and cesspits. There was a lot of pollution and disease spread rapidly.
The government had a laissez-faire attitude, meaning they did not view the lack of public hygiene as their problem to deal with, and it was not their responsibility to clean up the streets.

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