This was a class-based movement.

这是一场基于阶级的运动
It was top-down and centralizing.

它是自上而下的集中化的
In Chadwick's mind,

在查得维克的观念中
the poor were largely responsible for their own plight.

穷人的境况大多原因在于他们自身
They weren't innocent, and they certainly weren't harmless.

他们并不是无辜的肯定也不是无害的
His mission was to cleanse and civilize the dangerous classes.

他的任务便是净化和开化这些危险的阶级
As I said, he wasn't a physician, and his reforms were

我之前说过他并不是个医者
not based on any new medical discoveries,

而且他的改革也并不基于任何新医学发现
on scientific experimentation or observation to determine

或是科学实验或
what measures were most effective by determining the causes of disease.

最有效的疾病治疗方法的观察之上
His reform measures, enormous as they were,

他绝大多数的改革措施
were based more on what was the commonsense of the period

都是以当时的一些常识