Health 2.3 Prevention of Disease

Question 1

What was Inoculation? Why was it popular? (HE 2.3)

Answer 1

• Dried scabs were scratched into skin or blown up noses.
• Popular because Lady Montagu inoculated her children.
• Common from 1740s.

Question 2

What were the problems with Inoculation? (HE 2.3)

Answer 2

• Religious objection.
• Lack of understanding.
• Risk of fatality.
• Expensive.
• Could still pass the disease.

Question 3

Why did people initially object to Vaccination? (HE 2.3)

Answer 3

• Jenner could not fully explain it.
• Doctors were paid to inoculate.
• Repeat tests failed due to contamination, patients died.
• Jenner wasn’t a fashionable city doctor.

Question 4

Why did people come to accept Vaccination? (HE 2.3)

Answer 4

• Jenner proved the effectiveness.
• Less dangerous than inoculating.
• Royal family were vaccinated.
• Parliament gave him a £10,000 grant in 1802.
• Made compulsory 1853.