Ideas about the causes of disease may be explored – miasma theory? What was this? You may want to discuss the work of John Snow – Broad Street.

You must begin with a clear introduction that clearly states the content of your essay and the overall aims, objectives and argument of the essay.
Then provide some background detail as to the developments in the Nineteenth Century – what was life like in the 19th Century? Discuss living conditions and diseases – cholera, small pox etc. Squalor and the impact on the population in terms of living conditions and consequent problems. This should be brief, because this is not a history essay.
Ideas about the causes of disease may be explored – miasma theory? What was this? You may want to discuss the work of John Snow – Broad Street.
You may then want to discuss the work of Edwin Chadwick – Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population in Great Britain. What did he find and recommend? Was there any opposition to his recommendations? From whom and why?