PUBH 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Lemuel Shattuck, Edwin Chadwick, Louis Pasteur
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Based on thomas: population growth would increase rapidly that we would not be able to sustain. Support to poverty relieves pressure of work. Introduced workforces: place to live that offered accommodation and employment. Poor law tied to discourage provision of relief. Offered free medical care and education for children. More populated for elderly, infirm rather than able bodied. Lack of public health was due to lifestyles endured by the poor. Laboring class restricted in growing economy due to poor health. Lemuel shattuck: recognized vital statistics could demonstrate extent of health problems. Shattuck report (1850): sanitation report in boston. Preventable diseases caused great loss of life. London sewage system had not reached soho: cesspools. Spontaneous generation: production of living organisms from nonliving matter. Resolved aspects unexplained by miasma and contagion theories focus on micro and macro level in disease. Germ theory disease can be transmitted directly from person to person or indirectly by another vector.
