What does this map show Why did so

What does this map show?

Why did so many people die in industrial towns? Key Words L 4 L 5 L 6 • Identify health problems in industrial towns • Describe why hygiene was so poor in industrial housing • Evaluate how people tried to improve health in industrial towns John Snow Cholera Government

Task Describe what John Snow learnt from this map in your book. Use detail from the map From this map John Snow learnt that… L 4 • Identify health problems in industrial towns L 5 • Describe why hygiene was so poor in industrial housing L 6 • Evaluate how people tried to improve health in industrial towns

What is the message of this cartoon? Discuss it with your partner I will pick pairs to ask L 4 L 5 L 6 • Identify health problems in industrial towns • Describe why hygiene was so poor in industrial housing • Evaluate how people tried to improve health in industrial towns

L 4 • Identify health problems in industrial towns • Describe why hygiene was so poor in industrial L 5 housing • Evaluate how people tried to improve health in L 6 industrial towns We looked at these sources last lesson What other health issues are there in these sources? Write a list in your book

Add to your list health problems in these sources L 4 L 5 L 6 • Identify health problems in industrial towns • Describe why hygiene was so poor in industrial housing • Evaluate how people tried to improve health in industrial towns

How does our government look after out health?

How did the government try and improve health in the cities? • Around the room are sources about methods used by the government to try and improve health in the cities • Copy this table into your books and fill it in using the sources around the room Method L 4 • Identify health problems in industrial towns • Describe why hygiene was so poor in industrial L 5 housing • Evaluate how people tried to improve health in L 6 industrial towns Description Would it have helped everyone? Why/why not?

L 4 • Identify health problems in industrial towns L 5 • Describe why hygiene was so poor in industrial housing L 6 • Evaluate how people tried to improve health in industrial towns Extension Did the government improve the health of the everyone? Explain your answer The government tried to improve peoples’ health in many ways. Firstly the government…This measure helped everyone/only helped the poor/rich because… The government also… Overall the government did/did not improve the health of everyone because…

Source 1 Water Pipes Wealthy Londoners had water piped into their houses. Poor people would gather in the streets to collect their supplies in buckets. Several new water companies were set up. However this meant that prices rose [because there was competition]. In 1852 the government set up an organised supply system which removed competition from

Source 2 Public Health Act 1848 The government passed a Public Health Act to try and improve health in the towns. The Act did a number of things: – It raised taxes to help pay for improvements – It looked after sewers and the water supply – It set up a central board of health which would focus on improving living conditions (however it was poorly funded and staff were not well trained)

Source 3 Sewers Themes river was very smelly in the Victorian period. There was so much human waste that sewers would overflow and end up in the rive. In the 1850 s the government raised £ 3 million to build a network of giant sewers that would carry waste across London. The waste would be pumped into the Themes away from where people lived and the Themes would carry it into the sea. These sewers are still used in London today!

Source 4 Public Health Act 1875 This act: • banned open sewers • houses were made further apart • introduced rubbish collection • inspectors were introduced to keep an eye on public health

Source 5 Soap In 1853, the tax on soap was taken off. This meant that poor people could buy it and become more hygienic by washing with it.