HIS263Y5 Lecture 7: Tutorial notes
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Chapter 8 - the era of reform, 1885-1914. Reform and the moral state-the establishment of a public health board. Moral reformers want to help terrible urban conditions. Middle class professional elites, mostly protestant (white obviously). Growing concerns over vices such as prostitution and alcohol. Also wanted to improve life of infants, decrease infant mortality, regulation on milk. Reformers wanted public ownership of utilities (more access, increasing government revenue without having to increase taxes), regulation of buildings to stop building of tenements. The social gospel-churches losing importance/power, turned attention to social problems of society. Focused on temporal issues rather than solely spiritual. Leaders of their professions trying to change society. Doctors-concerned with public health, sanitation, infant morality, cures of diseases, recommended compulsory check ups for children. Teachers-want children to stay in school, huge dropoff from grade 1 to grade 5. See education as a way to lift out of poverty. Better to be in school than roaming the streets.
