Industrial Medicine

Question 1

In what year did Jenner develop the small pox vaccine?

Answer 1

1796

Question 2

What method of preventing disease did vaccination improve upon?

Answer 2

Inoculation

Question 3

What disease did Jenner inject James Phipps with to prevent him from getting small pox?

Answer 3

Cow pox

Question 4

How many more experiments did Jenner carry out after testing on James Phipps?

Answer 4

23

Question 5

Give 2 reasons for why Jenner faced opposition

Answer 5

Doctors made money from inoculation, doctors got his methods wrong so didn’t get the same results, people were scared they’d turn into cows

Question 6

In what year did the British government make the vaccination compulsory?

Answer 6

1852

Question 7

Which theory did the Germ Theory prove wrong in 1861?

Answer 7

Spontaneous generation, miasma

Question 8

What job did Pasteur do and in which country?

Answer 8

Chemist - France

Question 9

In what year did Koch prove that specific germs cause specific diseases?

Answer 9

1875

Question 10

Name 3 germs that Koch discovered

Answer 10

Anthrax, TB, cholera

Question 11

Name 3 vaccines that Pasteur developed

Answer 11

Chicken cholera, anthrax, rabies

Question 12

In what year did Nightingale go out to the Crimea?

Answer 12

1854

Question 13

What changes did Nightingale make to the wards in the Crimea?

Answer 13

Well ventilated, clean sheets, well fed, clean water, beds spaced far apart

Question 14

What were the names of Nightingale’s 2 books that turned nursing into a profession?

Answer 14

Notes on Hospitals

Notes on Nursing

Question 15

By 1901 there were 68,000 trained nurses and in 1850 there had been none. True or false?

Answer 15

True

Question 16

What attitude did the government have during the industrial period?

Answer 16

Laíssez-faire = sit back do nothing

Question 17

In what year did cholera hit England?

Answer 17

1831

Question 18

Who wrote the report on the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population?

Answer 18

Chadwick

Question 19

When was the first Public Health Act and what was wrong with it?

Answer 19

1848 - everything was advised not enforced

Question 20

What did the first Public Health Act recommend?

Answer 20

It was advised that you could have school nurses, local health ministers, collect tax: only in areas of high death rate

Question 21

Who discovered what was causing cholera in Broad Street and in what year?

Answer 21

John Snow - 1854

Question 22

Who built London’s sewer system?

Answer 22

Bazalgette

Question 23

When was the Great Stink?

Answer 23

1858

Question 24

In what year were some working class men given the right to vote?

Answer 24

1867

Question 25

When was the second Public Health Act passed and why was it different to the first?

Answer 25

1875 - all the advisory points were made compulsory