political spectrum wanted mortality and healthcare to be distributed more evenly among the rich and poor than they estimated …

Bentham, championed reforms that form part of the Public Health Act of 1848, which led to the primacy of sanitation efforts … (such as pressurised water supply, sewage management, and garbage collection and safe disposal) in public health policy in … the UK and elsewhere. Maclean convinced the Sanitarians that quarantines were not grounded in health science but instead …