What Could Have Been Done to Prevent the Famine?

One of the most search for questions on this subject is, what could have been done to prevent the famine? Er in any famine, what people need is food. The british government never felt thought about the other necessities that people needed - medical aid and clean bedding. Even when they gave relief, they saw it in a very, very limited way. Some boards of guardians wanted to feed people, they were er told thait was illegal. They weren't allowed to. So there just could have been, from the very beginning, more flexibility in the response of thebritish government.