Ashley+McFetridge

Urban Development Edwin Chadwick Jan. 24th, 1800 - July 6th, 1890

I am a bureaucrat of this time that wishes for urban renewal. I wish for public health and social reforms.
 * __Objective:__**

I am a bureaucrat. I had joined the Unilitarian Society while I was learning to become a lawyer. The Prime Minister, Earl Grey, had initiated a Royal Commission of Enquiry on the Poor Laws. I was appointed as one of the assistant commissioners responsible for collecting information on the subject. We had to write a report on the subject, and I ended up writing one third of it. The Poor Law Amendment Act was passed. After the influenza and typhoid epidemics in 1837 and 1838, I was asked to carry out a new report into sanitation. I wrote a report arguing that disease is directly related to living conditions and that there is a desperate need for public health reform. My report created an awareness of the need of government to take action to protect people. So the Public Health Act was passed. I have become the Sanitation Commissioner of the Central Board of Health that was created after the Public Health Act. I had several ideas on how public health can be improved including a constant supply of fresh clean water, water closets in every house, and a system of carrying sewage to outlying farms, where it would provide a cheap source of fertilizer. In order to keep all of my reforms I had achieved preserved, I resigned. I still campaign for changes in the laws and new reforms.
 * __Summary:__**


 * __Major Accomplishments:__**
 * Appointed as an assistant commissioner.-1832
 * Reported information on the Poor Laws.-1834
 * Wrote The Sanitary Conditions of the Laboring Population.-1842
 * Was appointed Sanitation Commissioner.-1848
 * Resigned from Board of Health.-1854

__**Bashing Of Opponents:**__

Vaccinations- There wouldn't be any vaccinations if there had been no urban development. Vaccines had been tested on animals, so there was no idea if they would work on humans. Some vaccines had devastating effect on humans that had never been seen before. Vaccines didn't completely destroy the virus at this time.

Hospitals- Nurses were usually unexperienced and drunk. You had a 80% of dying in a hospital. They were so bad that people thought that hospitals were "death traps of the poor".

Labor Unions- The gap between the working class and middle class widened. Factories, goods, and machines would be destroyed during strikes. Prices of goods rose because of them, becoming too expensive to buy.

Women's Suffrage- Lots of conflict was throughout England because of different point of views.

Public Education- The idea of education was good, but the goal was low. They just wanted a well- trained, skilled labor force for white collar jobs. They could learn a lot more than that. High School was only for the rich. Everyone should be able to learn.

Scientific Research- There were many theories made, but theories are not proven facts. People believed theories that had never been proven true.

Religion- The society had broken apart because of different religious views. People argued and had conflicts about different religions or their religious beliefs.