Poverty, public health and the state in Britain, c1780–1939：練習題

Which Victorian individual was most famous for publishing Self-Help in \(1859\), promoting the ideology of individual responsibility as the primary solution to poverty?

What was a significant outcome of the Parliamentary Reform Act of 1867 regarding the administration of the Poor Law?

How did the Andover Workhouse scandal of 1845 directly influence the central administration of the Poor Law in Britain?

Which individual is most associated with the engineering of London's main drainage system in the mid-nineteenth century, following the 'Great Stink' of 1858?

In the inter-war period, why did the Special Areas Act 1934 prove largely ineffective at revitalizing regions like South Wales and the North East?

Identify the individual who authored the influential 1842 Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population.

Outline the importance of the poverty studies conducted by Charles Booth and Seebohm Rowntree in challenging the Victorian idea that poverty was always the fault of the individual.

Explain how the Unemployment Act 1934 fundamentally altered the administration of relief for the long-term unemployed compared to the system it replaced.

Describe the significance of the 1832 cholera epidemic in Britain. How did this event lead to a change in public perception regarding the causes of disease and the necessity of state-funded drainage systems?

Discuss the impact of the Liberal Government reforms (1906–08) on public health and poverty.
a) How did the provision of school meals and medical inspections mark a shift in the state's role?
b) Why was the 1908 Old Age Pensions Act considered a landmark in welfare reform?