Summary War and government notes (dyslexic friendly)
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A full in depth notes summary of AQA GCSE Medicine: War and Government. These notes managed to get me a grade 8 on my AQA History GCSE in 2022. All notes have been made using class notes, teacher notes and AQA History guides. All notes that i have made are Dyslexia friendly, are colourful and easy ...
War and government
Britain in 1900 and after
- By 1900, millions of ordinary British citizens were still living in desperate
poverty.
- Overcrowded, unsanitary and housing was still common in British industrial
towns.
- People worked long hours for low wages and couldn’t afford decent food or to
see a doctor if they were ill.
- After 1900, the government began to have more involvement in public health.
The reports of Booth and Rowntree
Charles Booth’s report- called Life and Labour of the People in London. Found that
around 30% of Londoners were so poor that they didn't have enough money to eat
properly, despite having full-time jobs. Demonstrated that there was a link between
poverty and a high death rate.
Seebohm Rowntree’s report- A Study of Town Life: his investigations took place in
York. found that 28% of the population didn’t have the minimum amount of money to
live on at sometime of their life.
The Boer War
- In 1899, a large-scale army recruitment campaign took place to find men to
fight in the Boer War.
- Army chiefs were alarmed by the fact that 40% of the young men who
volunteered were unfit to be soldiers, mostly due to poor diet and poverty-
related illnesses.
- The government set up a special committee to investigate the ‘Physical
Deterioration of the People’.
- In 1904, the committee released its report, concluding that many men were
failing to get into the army because they led such unhealthy lives.
Government action on public health
- The reports fuelled fears that the unhealthy state of Britain’s workers might
lead to the decline of Britain as a great industrial power. Germany, for
example, which had a good system of state welfare for workers, was
beginning to produce as much coal,iron and steel as Britain.
- Some politicians, including many from the Liberal Party (including Churchill
and Lloyd Geroge), believed that direct action from the government was the
way to improve the public health, welfare and productivity in the nation.
- The Liberal Party was also worried about the popularity of the Labour Party,
which had been founded in 1900, so they wanted measures that would appeal
to working people and stop them voting for Labour.
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