Industrial Quiz

Question 1

In what year did Jenner develop the Smallpox vaccination?

Answer 1

1796

Question 2

What method of preventing disease did vaccinations improve on?

Answer 2

Inoculation

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Cow pox

Question 4

How many more experiments did Jenner carry out?

Answer 4

23

Question 5

Give 2 reasons why Jenner faced opposition:

Answer 5

Doctors made more money from inoculation

Other doctors got his methods wrong and thought they didn’t work

Question 6

In what year did the British government make vaccinations compulsory?

Answer 6

1852

Question 7

What theories did the GT prove wrong?

Answer 7

Miasma and Spontaneous Generation

Question 8

What job did Pasteur do and in which country?

Answer 8

French - doctor

Question 9

In what year did Koch prove that specific microbes cause specific disease?

Answer 9

1875

Question 10

Name 3 germs 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 to the Crimean War?

Answer 12

1854

Question 13

What changes did Nightingale make to wards in the Crimea?

Answer 13

More hygienic, more ventilated, more spacious

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Notes on hospitals

Notes on nursing

Question 15

How many trained nurses were there by 1901? (there were none in 1850)

Answer 15

68 000

Question 16

What attitude did the government have in this time period?

Answer 16

Laissez-faire

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? What was wrong with it?

Answer 19

1848 - not compulsory

Question 20

What did the first Public Health Act recommend?

Answer 20

You could have local health ministers

Question 21

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

Answer 21

Jon Snow, 1854

Question 22

Who built London’s sewage system?

Answer 22

Joseph Bazalgette

Question 23

When was the Great Stink?

Answer 23

1858

Question 24

In what year were some working men given the right to vote? What was the act called?

Answer 24

1867 - Reform Act

Question 25

When was the 2nd Public Health Act passed and how was it different?

Answer 25

1875 - Compulsory not optional