Public Health By Eduardo

Question 1

Who discovered that Cholera wasnt spread by miasma

Answer 1

John Snow

Question 2

When was the public health act passed

Answer 2

1848

Question 3

When was the great stink

Answer 3

1858

Question 4

What was Laissez-Faire

Answer 4

The belief that the government don’t need to get involved in the day to day life of it’s citizens.

Question 5

How many deaths a year were the ineffecient sewerage and impure water supplies causing

Answer 5

60,000

Question 6

What did John Snow do

Answer 6

1. He found out that cholera was spread through contaminated water.
2. He dissolved the theory of miasma
   3.He discovered that there was contamination in the water (cholera) of broad street pump

Question 7

What were common diseases

Answer 7

•Typhoid
•Cholera
•Smallpox
•Scarlet Fever
•Measles

Question 8

Who created the public health act

Answer 8

Edwin Chadwick

Question 9

What did the public health act do

Answer 9

•Improve sewerage
•Medical health officers in every town
•Gave everyone clean running water
•Gave poor people better living conditions

Question 10

What did the government believe caused disease and poor living conditions

Answer 10

Laziness

Question 11

Who was Joseph Bazalgette

Answer 11

The chief engineer of metropolitan board of works (he rennovated the sewage system which improved public health)

Question 12

What did Bazalgette do

Answer 12

He designed and constructed new and more efficient sewers.

Question 13

How much did the renovation of sewers cost

Answer 13

£2.5 million

Question 14

What was the Great Stink

Answer 14

The great stink was a stench from the river thames caused by hot weather and human waste

Question 15

What was another thing Bazalgette did

Answer 15

Build embankents along the river thames

Question 16

What did bazalgette discover

Answer 16

That human waste was going into the waterways, then into rivers, then the river thames, and into water supplies.

Question 17

How long were the new and improved sewers

Answer 17

82 miles

Question 18

How did the new sewers improve public health

Answer 18

They removed 420 million gallons of sewage a day. Also cholera never returned to London after.

Question 19

What did Edwin Chadwick discover

Answer 19

That disease weren’t caused by laziness but by poor living conditions due to the government not providing clean sewerage and water supply

Question 20

How did John Snow improve public health

Answer 20

Removing the handle of Broad street pump reduced the amount of deaths caused by cholera

Question 21

When were the sewers finally fully built

Answer 21

1875

Question 22

When was the broad street pump handle removed

Answer 22

1854

Question 23

What is miasma?

Answer 23

The belief that disease is caused by smell

Question 24

What did the government believe during the induatrial revolution?

Answer 24

That poor living conditions were caused by laziness

Question 25

Problems with victorian hospitals during the industrial revolution

Answer 25

Breeding grounds for infection
Nicknamed “houses of death”
Overcrowded, grimy and poorly managed
Understaffed

Question 26

Islamic progress of medicine =

Answer 26

-the islamic achievements in medical medicine had been groundbreaking
-islamic doctors developed new techniques in medicine,dissection, surgery and pharmacology
-they founded hospitals,introduced physician training and wrote encyclopedias of medicinal knowledge
-islamic hospitals pioneered the used of anticeptics such as alchol, vinegar or rose-water in cleaning wounds. Everything was to be kept as clean as possible- in stark contrast to the near total lack of sanitisanton and cleanliness in christian lands at the time
- in the 10th century arabic doctor Al zahrawi(litterly allen) invented over 200 surgical instruments, many of which are still used today, including forceps, scapel,surgical needle and retractor, specula and catgut sutures