Public Health In The 19th Century

In the Nineteenth century the people in the U.K didn't have very good health and they were very poor. The ones who had money were able to pay to go and see a doctor if they were unwell but the ones who were poor were not able to do so as they didn’t have the money to pay the doctor. The sanitary, housing and education was also very poor, this also impacted on their health. In the 19th century as result of the Industrial Revolution the size of many British cities increased quickly.Over the next century public health moderately improved but it took a long time for the lives of people living in slums to improve. The people that helped improve public health were John Snow and Edwin Chadwick. They helped improve public health by carrying out research