History A-Level
Sanitation and infrastructure
What Sanitation and infrastructure means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Sanitation and infrastructure
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Improvements in drainage and sewerage after the 1848 and 1875 Public Health Acts, and a water supply shifting from polluted sources to filtered and chlorinated systems.
Topics that use Sanitation and infrastructure
- Paper 3, Option 34.2: Poverty, public health and the state in Britain, c1780–1939 - 2 Changes in public health (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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