19th Century Public Health

Question 0

What was the average life expectancy of the working man at start of 19th C?

Answer 0

30

Question 1

Name 2 life threatening diseases at the start of 19th C

Answer 1

TB, Typhoid, Cholera

Question 2

Life expectancy at end of 19th C?

Answer 2

50

Question 3

What was infant mortality rate in Manchester at start?

Answer 3

1/3 before 3rd Birthday

Question 4

When were the 5 cholera outbreaks?

Answer 4

1831, 1837, 1838, 1848, 1854

Question 5

At start how did people think disease was spread?

Answer 5

Miasma

Question 6

What did Chadwick report state?

Answer 6

Disease in cities caused by bad air from filth, so sewage, drainage and water systems were improved. Poor were not to blame

Question 7

Why did the gov do little after Chadwick report?

Answer 7

Laissez faire

Question 8

What does laissez faire mean?

Answer 8

To let do

Question 9

Why didn’t many towns set up local health boards?

Answer 9

It was optional

Question 10

How did John snow discover how cholera was spread?

Answer 10

Open sewage was running near a water pump, and many people got cholera from drinking there

Question 11

Why were snows beliefs not believed by many?

Answer 11

He couldn’t prove why

Question 12

What caused the great stink?

Answer 12

Heat wave

Question 13

Who built the sewers and when?

Answer 13

Balzagette

1858-1866

Question 14

When did cholera never return and why?

Answer 14

1866, balzagette built 83 miles of sewers

Question 15

When was the compulsory smallpox vaccination?

Answer 15

1853

Question 32

When was the sanitary act introduced?

Answer 32

1866

Question 33

What were the effects of the sanitary act?

Answer 33

Towns had to install proper water supply and sewage disposal

Question 34

When was the housing act introduced?

Answer 34

1875

Question 35

What were the effects of the 1875 housing act?

Answer 35

Councils were given power to pull down bad houses and build better ones

Question 36

When was the second public health act introduced?

Answer 36

1875

Question 37

What were the effects of the second public health act?

Answer 37

Councils had to keep pavements lit, paved and clean, clean sewers etc. taxes could be raised

Question 38

When was the reform act introduced?

Answer 38

1867

Question 39

What did the reform act allow to happen?

Answer 39

Working men getting the vote

Question 40

Why did working men getting the vote change the government?

Answer 40

The political parties had to appeal to them, so conditions were improved.

Question 41

What about the 1899 Boer war indicated that health hadn’t improved so much?

Answer 41

Many people volunteering for war were deemed unfit