Med 4

Question 1

Liberal Reform political motives

Answer 1

• Social referrences
• Outspoken about need for reform
• Boer war (need more soldiers)
• compete for better industry than USA and Germany
• Rise of communism

Question 2

Liberal Reform moral motive

Answer 2

• It is wrong for people to be poor
• George (politician) wanted better life for people

Question 3

Liberal Reform National Motive

Answer 3

• Boer war: strong army for Britain
• Healthier people for industry

Question 4

Liberal Reforms on children

Answer 4

1. Free school meals act 1960:
   free meals to poor children
   => by 1914 over 150 000 chilren have free meals
2. Education act 1907;
   Introduced scholarships

Secondary Schools that received money from local government were to reserve 25% for children from Elementary Schools

3. Children’s act (1908) :
   Children are protected by law, Juvenile schools

Question 5

Liberal Reform on old people

Answer 5

1.Old Age Pensions Act (1908)
=> weekly pensions for elderly and earned less than $21 per year
=> only for British citizen more than 20 years and not in prison

Question 6

Liberal Reform on the unemployed

Answer 6

1.Labour exchange act (1909)
=>The unemployed could go to an exchange to look for a job

2.National Insurance Act (1911)
=> Set up an insurance scheme to prevent poverty arising from illness

3. National Insurance Act (1912)
   => Although there were 10 million men and 4 million women covered by the national insurance scheme, a second act was necessary to deal with workers who found themselves periodically out of work

Question 7

Liberal Reform on the sick

Answer 7

School Medical Inspection Act (1907)
=> free compulsory medical check for children at school but treatment has to be paid

Question 8

How WW1 change medicine

Answer 8

1.Blood Transfusion = Lewisehn discover sodium citrate stop blood clotting and last longer in refrigerator

2. X ray =Marie curie invented portable X ray in van (Oct 1914) to find sharpeners in soldiers

3.Surgery = Carrel- Dakin method (wound cleaned by a sterile salt solution)

4. Plastic surgery = ‘Thomas Splint’ created
   Used for soldiers who lost their limbs in war.

Question 9

Woman in WW1

Answer 9

• Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) : death with injured soldiers close to the front

-(QAIMNS) after 1918 over 10 000 nurses worked with army

(FANY) worked with RAMC and trained with skills to get casualties on the battlefield itself

(VADs) helped in hospital with cleaning

Women’s army auxiliary corps : set up in 1917 and drive ambulances

Dr Loisa Garret and Dr Flora Murray: funded the woman hospital corps

Voluntary hospitals near front lines ‘angles of Pervyse’

Shortage of doctors so more women doctors but only temporary

Question 10

3 main disease in war

Answer 10

Trench foor
Trench Fever
Shellshock

Question 11

4 main advances in medicine during ww1

Answer 11

• x ray
• motorized ambulance
• Blood transfusion
• Antiseptic and anaestheshia