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Secondary History : Poverty Health and Housing in the 19th Century

Clip description		Keywords
	Government and public health, 1830-1850 Duration: 04:33 The role of the British government in improving public health in the years following the 1832 cholera epidemic.	Edwin Chadwick, death, life, expectancy, 1848, infectious diseases, housing, industrial, revolution, urbanisation, Medicine through Time

	Government and public health, 1866-1875 Duration: 02:03 The impact growing wealth in 19th century Britain had on public health.	medical officer, Manchester, pail closet, Public Health Act, cholera, epidemic, John Lee, labourer, infectious diseases, 19th century, housing, industrial revolution, urbanisation, Medicine through Time

	Health and housing in the 19th century Duration: 03:26 The government of the 1840s compiled data, statistics and testimony from health specialists to gain a picture of the dire health of the working poor in Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool and Glasgow.	miasma, Leeds, Manchester, Liverpool, Glasgow, stench, disease, cholera, health, overcrowding, nineteenth century

	Health, hygeine and transport in 19th century London Duration: 02:54 Far from what is often imagined, London in 1900 was still as dangerous to the health and hygiene of Englishman as it had been 100 years earlier.	Health, Safety, horses, mature, cars, industrial city, typhoid, typhus, cholera

	Manchester Cholera Epidemic, 1832 (pt 2/2) Duration: 04:52 The impact of poor quality housing in Britain on the spread of cholera.	cholera, epidemic, manchester, cholera map, gaulter, public health, infectious diseases, housing, back to backs, Medicine through Time

	Manchester cholera epidemic, 1832 (pt 1/2) Duration: 04:59 A dramatisation of the outbreak of cholera in Manchester in 1832.	cholera, epidemic, manchester, cholera map, gaulter, public health, infectious diseases, Medicine through Time

	Poor housing in London in the 1880s Duration: 03:34 How health and poor housing concerned the reformers and philanthropists of the late 19th century	poverty, poor, sanitation, housing, disease, reformers, Charles Booth, Samuel Barnett, Octavia Hill, London

	Sanitation and the working poor in 19th century England Duration: 03:17 The story of a collier and his family in the 1860s and how they dealt with the death of a very young child in desperate living condtions.	poverty, sanitation, housing, death-rate, 1850s, collier, child mortality, Burnley, Lancashire

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Secondary History : Poverty Health and Housing in the 19th Century

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