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with the new poor law and with the sanitary report.
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The sanitary reform was also a stark assertion
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of state power as a means of social control.
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The intention was to discipline and civilize the working classes
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in the interests of social stability.
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Following in the wake of the report was the establishment
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of a Public Health Act of 1848 in Britain,
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and a general Board of Health, and such champions of sanitary
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reform as John Simon,
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Thomas Southwood Smith
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and Neil Arnott.
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Now, let's talk for a minute about this man's ideology