Nineteenth century medicine (Key dates)

Question 1

When did inoculation come to England?

Answer 1

1721

Question 2

When did Edward Jenner create vaccinations?

Answer 2

1796

Question 3

When was the microscope invented?

Answer 3

1677

Question 4

When did Louis Pasteur publish Germ theory?

Answer 4

1861

Question 5

When did Robert Koch discover the germ for Anthrax?

Answer 5

1871

Question 6

When did Louis Pasteur discover the vaccine for chicken cholera?

Answer 6

1879

Question 7

When were the cholera outbreaks?

Answer 7

1831,1837,1838,1848,1854

Question 8

When was Chadwick’s inquiry commissioned?

Answer 8

1839

Question 9

When was Chadwick’s report published?

Answer 9

1842

Question 10

When was the first Public health act passed?

Answer 10

1848

Question 11

When did John Snow discover the cause of cholera?

Answer 11

1854

Question 12

When was the Great Stink?

Answer 12

1858

Question 13

When were Joseph Bazalgette’s sewers commissioned/ completed?

Answer 13

1858/ 1866

Question 14

When was the Sanitary act passed?

Answer 14

1866

Question 15

When was the reform act?

Answer 15

1867

Question 16

When did the conservatives get voted into parliament?

Answer 16

1874

Question 17

When was the Housing act passed?

Answer 17

1875

Question 18

When was the second Public Health act passed?

Answer 18

1875

Question 19

When was the Food and Drugs act passed?

Answer 19

1875

Question 20

When was Ether first used?

Answer 20

1846

Question 21

When was chloroform first used?

Answer 21

1847

Question 22

When did queen Victoria use chloroform in child birth?

Answer 22

1857

Question 23

When did Joseph Lister discover carbolic acid?

Answer 23

1867

Question 24

When did doctors begin to take exams?

Answer 24

1815

Question 25

When was the General Medical Act passed?

Answer 25

1858

Question 26

When did Elizabeth Garrett become the first female doctor in Great Britain?

Answer 26

1869

Question 27

When did parliament pass a law preventing gender discrimination in medicine?

Answer 27

1876

Question 28

When was the Crimean war?

Answer 28

1854-1856

Question 29

When did Florence Nightingale publish ‘Notes on Nursing’?

Answer 29

1860

Question 30

When did Florence Nightingale publish ‘Notes on Hospitals’?

Answer 30

1863

Question 31

When was the Boer war?

Answer 31

1899

Question 32

When did the committee on Physical deterioration publish their report?

Answer 32

1904

Question 33

When was the School meals act?

Answer 33

1906

Question 34

When was free treatment for children introduced?

Answer 34

1907

Question 35

When was the Children and young person’s act passed?

Answer 35

1908

Question 36

When was back-to-back housing banned?

Answer 36

1909

Question 37

When were smallpox vaccinations made compulsory?

Answer 37

1853