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In Britain, the idea of the Welfare State could be said to have begun with the Poor Relief Act in 1601. This acknowledged that (36) as a whole had a (37) towards its (38) members, people who suffered as a result of (39) that they could not control, such as illness or inability to work. Before that, (40) orders were the only organizations to look after people who had no one to care for them. The poor Relief Act was (41) in the nineteenth century. In the years before the 1914—1918 war the Liberal Prime Minister, Lloyed George, introduced a (42) for people over seventy and some form of (43) for the people injured while working in industry.
The basis of today’s Welfare States in Brian was laid in 1942 by a former director of the London School of Economics, Sir William Beveridge. (44) . But his proposal didn’t stop there. (45) . There were, he said, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness.
After considerable political struggle an Education Act was passed in 1944. It abolished school fees. (46) .
In 1948 the establishment of the National Health Service gave every Briton the right to free medical, dental and eye treatment.