Public Health

Question 0

How did Egyptians stay clean?

Answer 0

Bathed
Shaved heads
Toilet changed clothes regularly

Question 1

Why was being nomadic good for public health?

Answer 1

You didn’t need to worry about it because you could leave

Question 2

What public health did the Greeks have?

Answer 2

Washed
Clean skin/hair/ teeth
Little public health

Question 3

Why did Romans want good public health?

Answer 3

They needed healthy army to control empire and merchants to keep empire fed and successful

Question 4

In roman times how was fresh water carried from springs to towns?

Answer 4

Pipes and aqueducts

Question 5

In roman times where was fresh water sent?

Answer 5

Public fountains, public baths, sewers, private homes, public latrines

Question 6

What was ‘laissez faire’?

Answer 6

Leave it alone

Question 7

In the Middle Ages what did people believe being clean showed?

Answer 7

You were close to God

Question 8

In the Middle Ages want were governments more concerned with?

Answer 8

Making laws about trade

Keeping law and order

Question 9

In the Middle Ages what made public health hard?

Answer 9

Population grew quickly

Question 10

Why couldn’t the people in Middle Ages get rid of waste?

Answer 10

Didn’t know how

Overwhelmed by it

Question 11

Did people in Middle Ages have toilets? What did this mean?

Answer 11

No, waste chucked onto streets

Question 12

What were the sewers and drains like in Middle Ages?

Answer 12

Too small

Question 13

What waste was on the streets?

Answer 13

Animals
Animal poo
Waste from fishmongers and butchers
Chemicals from dyeing clothes and leather

Question 14

What was the problem with the first public toilets in Middle Ages?

Answer 14

Had to be emptied by hand

Question 15

What were the people called who cleaned out privies and the street of filth?

Answer 15

Gong farmers

Question 16

What was the place in the Middle Ages where all the butchers had to be?

Answer 16

The shambles

Question 17

What happened in 1350?

Answer 17

Butchers banned from being inside the walls of London

Question 18

What did the government do in the Middle Ages to make sure the meat butchers sold was fit to eat?

Answer 18

Banned butchers from selling in the dark

Question 19

When was the Black Death?

Answer 19

1348-52

Question 20

What fraction of the population did the Black Death kill?

Answer 20

1/3

Half the population of London

Question 21

What rules were brought in after the Black Death 1348-51?

Answer 21

Fine for illegally dumping waste

Question 22

What was it healthier to drink in Middle Ages?

Answer 22

Wine and beer

Question 23

What did people think caused Black Death?

Answer 23

Miasma- bad air

Question 24

What was the difference between the pneumonic plague and the bubonic plague?

Answer 24

Pneumonic was airborne | Bubonic was from bites

Question 25

In the Middle Ages how did war affect public health?

Answer 25

Disease followed armies

Question 26

What was the Islamic empire like in the Middle Ages?

Answer 26

Had piped water Public baths Hospitals

Question 27

When was the Great Plague?

Answer 27

1665

Question 28

What did people have to do if they had the great plague?

Answer 28

Red crosses on doors Quarantine 'God have mercy on us' written Plague pits- mass graves

Question 29

What did the Great Fire of London do?

Answer 29

Sterilised London of Great Plague

Question 30

When was the Great Fire of London?

Answer 30

1666

Question 31

What did the council do to animals at the time of Great Plague?

Answer 31

Killed them

Question 32

What was life expectancy like in 1842?

Answer 32

Aged 20

Question 33

When did cholera reach Britain?

Answer 33

1831

Question 34

When was cholera an epidemic?

Answer 34

1832

Question 35

Who wrote the 'report on sanitary conditions of the labouring population of Great Britain'? When was it published?

Answer 35

Chadwick, 1842

Question 36

When was the first public health act?

Answer 36

1848

Question 37

When was the link between contaminated water and cholera discovered? Who by?

Answer 37

1854, snow

Question 38

What acts were brought in in 1875?

Answer 38

Public health act | Artisans dwelling act

Question 39

What did the Boer war and ww1 do?

Answer 39

Showed a large percentage of population were unfit for military service Google health, good army

Question 40

What did labour do to public health?

Answer 40

Brought in acts and rules

Question 41

When were frees school meals brought in?

Answer 41

1906

Question 42

When was the school medical inspection brought in?

Answer 42

1907

Question 43

What did labour bring in in 1909?

Answer 43

``` Old age pension act Labour exchanges (job centres) ```

Question 44

When was the national insurance act?

Answer 44

1911

Question 45

What did the ministry of health promise in 1919?

Answer 45

A land fit for heroes

Question 46

What did ww2 do to promote social change?

Answer 46

Evacuation and mass armies showed health to others

Question 47

When was the emergency medical service brought in?

Answer 47

1940

Question 48

What did the emergency medical service do?

Answer 48

Free emergency treatment to air raid casualties

Question 49

When was the 'Beveridge report' published?

Answer 49

1942

Question 50

When did the NHS come in?

Answer 50

1948

Question 51

Who introduced the NHS?

Answer 51

Bevan

Question 52

What happened to the national insurance in 1958? Why?

Answer 52

Made compulsory, to pay for NHS

Question 53

When was WHO set up?

Answer 53

1948

Question 54

What did WHO do?

Answer 54

Increased children vaccinated worldwide