Joe

The twentieth century was a time of many different medical discoveries. In 1919 a new housing act was passed, required local authorities to provide good homes for all working-class people in their area. During the first four years the Government promised to help fund these schemes. In the 1930’s 700,000 new homes built by local authorities, large housing estates were built away from the city. In the 1930’s local authorities claimed to have re housed 80% of the slum dwellers.

The life expectancy at the start of the twentieth century was at 45 years old for a male and 50 for a female. Now at the start of the twentieth century it is at 75 for a male and 80 for a female. This shows that our life expectancy has gone up by 30 years in the last century.

Pollution is very bad for the environment but also bad for our health. In the early twentieth century know one knew that pollution could be very dangerous for there health. Now in the twenty first century we do know that pollution is bad for our health, so we try to keep as far away as possible from the dangerous gasses in the air. This improves our life span because our bodies don’t have to coupe with the harmful gasses we breathe into our lungs.

The NHS (National Health Service) has helped improve the people in Britain’s life span because if you were in a bad accident and you were dieing of loose of blood the NHS will replace the blood you are loosing with donated blood. Also if you are in need of an organ they will do what they can to replace it with a donated one. This helps improve people in Britain’s life span because less people die of loos of blood or organ failer.