Public Health Flashcards
Name two people responsible for public health in towns
Mayors and Aldermen
Name a way people get food
Drovers
Where did London record how to keep people healthy
White Book
Why were drovers a risk to public health in Medieval towns
Littered animal carcasses
Give one unhelpful cure for the Black Death
Blood Letting
Give one invention from 1250-1750
Steam engines
What were public bath houses referred to as
“Stews”
Did London improve it’s health after B.D
No, as plague struck back numerous times over the years
When does the Medieval period begin and end
1250-1500
Give one feature of a Medieval peasants diet
Pottage
What did Medieval peasants drink
Small Beer
Name a guild
Butchers guild
T\F King Henry 8th started reformation in England
T
T\F Rivers were of then disease ridden in the Medieval countryside
T
What % of people l could vote in Medieval England
3%
What was believed to cause Black Death
Miasma
Name an invention from 1500-1750
Microscope
T/F Jetties were made into the THames
T
Give one way people in Medieval countrysides got water
Conduits
T/F No one knew the relation between germs and disease in Medieval England
T
Name one thing banned from the city of Bristol
Prostitutes
Give one feature of Medieval homes in the countryside
Wattle and daub
Give one Medieval belief about the Black Death
4 Humors
What was a privy
Outdoors, shared toilet
What did rakers do
Clean rubbish from the streets
T/F People blamed “bad air” for the Black Death
T
What did plague doctors put in their beaks
Herbs and flowers
Give a feature of homes in Medieval towns
Thatched rooves
What year was the steam engine invented
1712
Name a disease that killed women and newborns
Childbed fever
Name a disease that killed people in the Medieval Period
TB
Name a disease from the Early Modern period
TB
Name why monasteries needed clean water
Holy water
T/F Trade lead to Black Death
T
What year did Black Death hit England
1348
How did monasteries improve health in Medieval England
Taking care of the sick
Give one feature of religion in Medieval England
Christian society
Why did animals live inside Medieval homes
Keep them in good conditions during the winter months
Why did public health eventually improve over time
Working classes got the vote
State King Edward III ‘s attitude to Public Health
Ordered for clean ups but passed no actual laws
How fast did Plague spread
500 miles in 500 days
How many did Plague kill
3.2 million
What % of people live in towns in Medieval England
10%
What type of bread cause Ergotism
Rye
Who had the most power in Medieval England
Monarchs
Name one way people tried to balance the four humors
Blood letting
What was the type of bacteria that spread Black Death
Yerstina Pestis
What could bad weather lead to
Bad harvest
What could bad harvest lead to
Starvation
Why were specialist jurors created
Supervise hygiene standards
Name one thing England acquired from trade
Tobacco
Name a town that banned dungheaps
Bristol
Name a town that banned Lepers
Bristol
Name a town that grew via trade
Bathe
Name a new drink in the Early Modern period
Hot chocolate
Why were skeletons often found in paintings
Symbolise death
Apart from paintings, where were skeletons also found
Jewellery and tombstones
Did people believe it was dangerous to do vigorous exercise Y\N
Y
Was it believed to be safe to have hot baths Y/N
N
What was one thing people burned to keep away Black Death
Lavender
Name a type of meat in a peasants diet
Fish
Why was it hard to improve Public Health in Carlisle
Scottish raids and invasions
What did Tawyers do
Skin animals
Name a large Medieval town
London
What was the main use of the steam engine
Pump water out of mines
What was one cheap material in Early Modern period
Coal
Name one health risk in countrysides
Open fires indoors
Name a health risk in towns
Rats
Name a well payed job in 1250-1750
Gongfermer
What did a gongfermer do
Clean waste from cesspits and latrines
Name a way to be sentenced to death in 1500-1750
Tried and found to be a witch
Why were prostitutes believed to spread miasma
Very sinful
Who was King Henry’s chief minister
Thomas Cromwell
What did Thomas Cromwell do
Closed Monasteries
What fell into ruin after the closing down of monasteries
Conduits
What’s the demolition of slum houses and the building of council housing called
Slum clearance
What is the year that slum clearance happens
1919
What is the slum clearance act called
1919 housing act
Name the two most prevelent diseases of the modern period
Spanish influenza and AIDs
What did newspapers call the AIDs epidemic
“Gay plague”
Define the key vocab: Welfare state
A government plan that took care of people
Name a form of leisure that lead to the obesity crisis
Television
What year was the first cholera epidemic
1831
What was Joseph Bazalgette employed by the government to create
A 1300 mile long sewer system
How much did the government pay Bazalgette for his sewer construction
£3 million
What did the 1846 cholera bill do
Prevented the public from connecting their homes to the sewer system, this was an attempt to try to stop miasma
T/F - Louis Pasteur was the man who came up with the idea of germ theory
True
Define the key vocab: Miasma
The idea that disease was spread through bad smelling air
Name a discovery that challenged religion
Darwin’s theory of evolution
How many gin acts were created in the 1700s
4
Define the key vocab: Flaggellant
A Christian who whips themselve to show love towards god, common in medieval and early modern Europe
What was one of the problems caused by smoking
Lung cancer
What was a problem caused by the gin craze
Drunkenness
Define the key vocab: Privy
A toilet
When did leisure activities become common
Modern period
What class worked with their hands
Lower class
Who piped water into their house
The rich
When was the first flushing toilet invented
1596
How did the 1729, 1736 and 1743 gin acts try to control gin
Through taxes and licences
Define the key vocab: Watchmen
Local officer who patrolled the streets at night
