Industrial Flashcards
What was the new idea of the cause of illness?
Spontaneous generation= idea that bacteria and germs are created from non-living things. E.g rotting food
When was germ theory published?
1861
What were some new treatments?
●patent medicines (cures people made at home)
●Towns became cleaner
●Public health facilities improving
How did hospitals improve during the industrial period?
●Seperate wards for people with infectious diseases
●Florence Nightingale
How did hospitals not improve during thr industrial period?
●As more people started to go to hospitals they became much less sanitary
●Doctors visited patients one after another without washing their hands
Problems with surgery in the industrial period?
●No anaesthetic
●Unclean clothes
●No washing hands
●Surgeons usually were disecting corpses before
●Lots of deaths (25%)
Improvements in surgery?
●James Simpson - Chloroform - Anisthetic
●Joseph Lister - Carbolic acid - antiseptic - told nurses to wash hands
●Gloves used
●New tools
What was the aim of the public health act 1848?
To improve sanitary conditions of towns
What actions happened after the public health act 1848?
Encouraged cities to set up boards of health and provide clean water supplies
What was a result of the public health act 1848?
Not compulsory so not much change
What was the aim of the second public health act?
●Improvd sanitary conditions, cause change by making rules compulsory
What were the actions that happened during the second public health act?
City authorities had to:
●Provide clean water
●Dispose of sewage so didn’t polite drinking+ washing water
●Employ a public health officer who would monitor disease outbreaks
●Provide public parks for exercise
●Inspect lodging houses to make sure they were clean
