<prompt> The lawyer who designed the Public Health Act 1848 was ?John snowEdwin ChadwickJoseph ListerWilliam Fan  <response>: Ans. is b i.e., Edwin Chadwick o The great cholera epidemic of 1832 led Edwin Chadwick 1800-1890, a lawyer in England, to investigate the health of the inhabitants of large towns with a view to improve the conditions under which they live. o Chadwicks repo on The Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population in Great Britain, a landmark in the history of public health, set London and other cities on the way to improve housing and working conditions. o Filth was recognized as mans greatest enemy and with this began an anti-filth crusade, the great sanitary awakening, which led to the enactment of Public Health Act 1948 in England. 