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Timeline
Key milestones in the history of CIEH
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1842
Edwin Chadwick publishes his landmark Report on the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population of Great Britain.
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1848
The Public Health Act 1848 is introduced. This establishes a General Board of Health and marks the first acceptance of responsibility for the health of the population by government.
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1854
John Snow removes the handle from the pump in Broad Street, Soho, during London’s outbreak of cholera.
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1872
The Public Health Act 1872 is introduced and makes the appointment of medical officers compulsory in urban areas.
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1875
The Public Health Act 1875 establishes a coherent administrative machinery to deal with issues of health and sanitation locally. Local authorities are required to provide water, drainage and sewerage services.
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1883
The Association of Public Sanitary Inspectors is founded.
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1884
Edwin Chadwick is appointed as the first President of the Association.
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1886
The Association’s first provincial meeting is held in Birmingham.
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1888
Following a Special Meeting of the Association in July, the Association of Public Sanitary Inspectors became the Association of Public Sanitary Inspectors of Great Britain.
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1891
The Association’s Certificate of Incorporation is granted by the Board of Trade, and its name is shortened to the Sanitary Inspectors Association.
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1895
The professional journal of the Sanitary Inspectors Association, the Sanitary Inspector’s Journal, is published.
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1899
The Sanitary Inspectors’ Examination Board is incorporated.
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1901
The Women Sanitary Inspectors Association is formed.
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1919
The Ministry of Health is established.
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1926
Formation of the Royal Sanitary Institute and Sanitary Inspectors Examination Joint Board.
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1953
Report of the Working Party on the Recruitment, Training and Qualification of Sanitary Inspectors is published.
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1956
Sanitary Inspectors (Change of Designation) Act – changed designation from ‘sanitary inspector’ to ‘public health inspector’.
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1957
Following the change in designation granted by the Act of Parliament in August 1956, the members of the Sanitary Inspectors Association voted at an extraordinary general meeting on 11 January 1957 to change the name of the Association to The Association of Public Health Inspectors (APHI).
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1965
First Annual Report on Environmental Health published by the Association.
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1974
The Health and Safety at Work etc Act (1974) came into force in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
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1974
The Control of Pollution Act (1974) came into force in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
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1975
The APHI became the Environmental Health Officers Association (EHOA).
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1981
The EHOA became the Institution of Environmental Health Officers (IEHO).
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1994
The IEHO was given consent by the Crown and the Privy Council to change its name to the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH).
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2003
CIEH issues its first Chartered Environmental Health Practitioner award.
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2019
The UK left the EU.
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