Edwin Chadwick

Question 1

During what time period did Chadwick work?

Answer 1

Industrial

Question 2

Who was Edwin Chadwick?

Answer 2

A civil servant who worked for the Poor Law Commission in the 1830s/40s. He became a member of the National Board of Health, set up in 1848

Question 3

What did he do?

Answer 3

• Wrote a ‘Report on the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population’
• Pushed the government to pass 1848 Public Health Act after the cholera epidemic

Question 4

When did he write his report?

Answer 4

1842

Question 5

What did his report state?

Answer 5

• Said that the poor lived in conditions which made them ill

- The rich should pay higher taxes to help the poor