Booklet 3 Medicine

Question 1

What did people try to do to attempt to improve public health in MEDIEVAL COVENTRY?

Answer 1

1420- council allowed people to charge for weekly street cleaning
1421- mayor proclaimed people must clean street Infront of their house or receive 12p fine
1427-there were 5 designated waste disposal sites

Question 2

What happened in Coventry 1420

Answer 2

council allowed people to charge for weekly street cleaning

Question 3

What happened in Coventry 1422

Answer 3

mayor proclaimed people must clean street Infront of their house or receive 12p fine

Question 4

What happened in Coventry 1427

Answer 4

there were 5 designated waste disposal sites

Question 5

What did people try to do to improve public health in the EARLY MODERN PERIOD

Answer 5

1532- towns can raise tax for sewers

1690- new act required all streets to be cleaned

Question 6

What did the Great Fire of London have an affect on public housing?

Answer 6

-Parliament passed an act after the Great Fire, to rebuild London streets wider

Question 7

How did Industrialisation affect public health?

Answer 7

• people had to live close to where they work and there were no building regulations
• water , gas and electricity were all supplied by private companies so poor people did not get any

Question 8

Who was Edwin Chadwick and what did he do?

Answer 8

• A member of the clean party and the poor law commission

- Wanted reform for clean streets and water, published a report on the sanitary condition of labourers

Question 9

Why did the government make the first public health act of 1848 and what was it?

Answer 9

• Edwin Chadwick’s report was the basis for it
• Cholera epidemic which killed 52,000 people which forced gov to act
• improve water supply and sewage

Question 10

What were improvement to POLLUTION during the 20th century?

Answer 10

• government passed the clean air acts of 1956 and 68 to the killer smog in London
• 1950 and 60s saw an emphasis on slum clearance
• In Wales Lake Vyrnwy first reservoir built in Wales, 1892

Question 11

What were improvement to housing in the 20th century?

Answer 11

• By 1939 over 1 million council houses were built
• In wales by 1968 over 70,000 homes had been improved by grants
• In Wales, 1968 10% of houses were unfit for human habitation
• 1998 fallen to 8.5%

Question 12

What were different ways the government tried to improve public health in the 21st century?

Answer 12

• introduced education on how people can live a healthier lifestyle
• fitness drives
• healthy eating (five a day initiative) 2016
• prevention over treatment

Question 13

How do FITNESS DRIVES work ?

Answer 13

• promoting active lifestyles

- encourage to walk 10,000 steps a day