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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
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and his intentions.
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This was a class-based movement.
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It was top-down and centralizing.
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In Chadwick's mind,
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the poor were largely responsible for their own plight.
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They weren't innocent, and they certainly weren't harmless.