18-19th Century Public Health

Question 0

When did Jenner do his first experiment?

Answer 0

1796

Question 1

Who passed the idea of inoculation to Britain?

Answer 1

Lady Mary Wortley Montague

Question 2

When was the smallpox vaccine made compulsory?

Answer 2

1853

Question 3

When were germs discovered?

Answer 3

1677, with microscope

Question 4

When was Pasteur asked to investigate beetroot alcohol go sour?

Answer 4

1857

Question 5

When was Germ Theory published?

Answer 5

1861

Question 6

Roughly when did Koch start investigating germs?

Answer 6

1871

Question 7

What was the average death for a working man in 1800?

Answer 7

30

Question 8

When did cholera arrive in Britain?

Answer 8

1831

Question 9

When were the cholera outbreaks?

Answer 9

1831, 1837, 1838, 1848, 1854

Question 10

When did the government set up an enquiry to find out about living conditions and health of the poor?

Answer 10

1839

Question 11

When was Chadwick’s report published?

Answer 11

1842

Question 12

What was Chadwick’s report called?

Answer 12

The report on the sanitary conditions of the labouring population of Great Britain

Question 13

When, and what, was the first public health act?

Answer 13

1848. National board of health created to set up local boards of health. Local boards could make sure new houses were built with drains and toilets, charge extra tax and appoint medical officers to inspect nuisances.

Question 14

When did John Snow make his breakthrough?

Answer 14

1854

Question 15

When was the Great Stink?

Answer 15

Summer 1858

Question 16

When were the sewers built from and to, and by who?

Answer 16

1858-1866. Joseph Bazalgette

Question 17

When, and what, was the Sanitary Act?

Answer 17

1866. Towns to install a proper water and sewage system. Inspectors to check.

Question 18

When, and what, was the Housing Act?

Answer 18

1875. Councils have power to pull down worst houses and rebuild.

Question 19

When, and what, was the second public health act?

Answer 19

1875. Local councils to keep pavements lit, paved and cleaned. Sewers clean and rubbish from streets. Increase taxes to pay for it.

Question 20

When were working class men given the vote?

Answer 20

1867

Question 21

When, and by who, was ether discovered?

Answer 21

1846, William Moston

Question 22

When, and by who, was chloroform discovered?

Answer 22

1847, James Simpson

Question 23

When, and by who, was carbolic acid first used in surgery?

Answer 23

1867, Joseph Lister

Question 24

When was the General Medical Register introduced?

Answer 24

1858

Question 25

When did Elizabeth Blackwell qualify as a doctor?

Answer 25

1849

Question 26

When did Elizabeth Garret qualify as a doctor?

Answer 26

1869

Question 27

When were women allowed to become doctors?

Answer 27

1876

Question 28

When did the Crimean war break out?

Answer 28

1854

Question 29

When was Notes on Nursing published?

Answer 29

1860

Question 30

When was Notes on Hospitals published?

Answer 30

1863