Remit of Nhs
The National Health Service was founded on the 5th July 1948. Winston Churchill was the prime minister at the time .The government decided to commission a report, addressing the ways in which Britain should be rebuilt after the Second World War had ended. The Beveridge report of 1942 (written by William Beveridge) identified five main points that needed to be addressed. These were Want (addressed poverty) disease (the lack of healthcare) ignorance (no education) squalor (represented the lack of housing) and idleness (unemployment). A Lot of politicians were confident that Winston Churchill would lead the conservatives to success in the general election. However this was not the case, clement Attlee of the labour party introduced all the courses of action needed that were stated in the Beveridge report. This is how the birth of the NHS occurred. There was to be many benefits slowly introduced. Houses were rebuilt, children went to secondary education and Britain was generally happy that someone was taking control.
Until 1906 there was not a great deal of help offered to workers and their families. There had only been the likes of the workhouses. The workhouses provided food, shelter and a wage for many poverty stricken families. They had the idea that if they came into the city and got jobs working in the workhouse, that they would have a good life this was not the case as they soon found out. The workers were fed scraps of basic food, their conditions horrific, but it kept them fed and housed. Many of these families got separated once they had arrived and the grim reality faced them. Most jobs carried out within the workhouse either consisted of laundry, street cleaning and field work for farmers. Infection and disease was higher for those cleaning the streets, dealing with open sewers as there was no sewer systems built in London yet to deal with peoples waste.
Forms of help did start to arrive for the poverty stricken of London in the way of a Christian couple
Until 1906 there was not a great deal of help offered to workers and their families. There had only been the likes of the workhouses. The workhouses provided food, shelter and a wage for many poverty stricken families. They had the idea that if they came into the city and got jobs working in the workhouse, that they would have a good life this was not the case as they soon found out. The workers were fed scraps of basic food, their conditions horrific, but it kept them fed and housed. Many of these families got separated once they had arrived and the grim reality faced them. Most jobs carried out within the workhouse either consisted of laundry, street cleaning and field work for farmers. Infection and disease was higher for those cleaning the streets, dealing with open sewers as there was no sewer systems built in London yet to deal with peoples waste.
Forms of help did start to arrive for the poverty stricken of London in the way of a Christian couple
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