Industrial Quiz Flashcards
In what year did Jenner develop the Smallpox vaccination?
1796
What method of preventing disease did vaccinations improve on?
Inoculation
What disease did Jenner inject James Phipps with to prevent him from getting smallpox?
Cow pox
How many more experiments did Jenner carry out?
23
Give 2 reasons why Jenner faced opposition:
Doctors made more money from inoculation
Other doctors got his methods wrong and thought they didn’t work
In what year did the British government make vaccinations compulsory?
1852
What theories did the GT prove wrong?
Miasma and Spontaneous Generation
What job did Pasteur do and in which country?
French - doctor
In what year did Koch prove that specific microbes cause specific disease?
1875
Name 3 germs Koch discovered:
Anthrax
TB
Cholera
Name 3 vaccines that Pasteur developed:
Chicken Cholera
Anthrax
Rabies
In what year did Nightingale go to the Crimean War?
1854
What changes did Nightingale make to wards in the Crimea?
More hygienic, more ventilated, more spacious
What were the names of Nightingale’s two books that turned nursing into a profession?
Notes on hospitals
Notes on nursing
How many trained nurses were there by 1901? (there were none in 1850)
68 000
What attitude did the government have in this time period?
Laissez-faire
In what year did Cholera hit England?
1831
Who wrote the report on the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population?
Chadwick
When was the first Public Health Act? What was wrong with it?
1848 - not compulsory
What did the first Public Health Act recommend?
You could have local health ministers
Who discovered what was causing cholera in Broad Street and in what year?
Jon Snow, 1854
Who built London’s sewage system?
Joseph Bazalgette
When was the Great Stink?
1858
In what year were some working men given the right to vote? What was the act called?
1867 - Reform Act
When was the 2nd Public Health Act passed and how was it different?
1875 - Compulsory not optional
