Public Health Dates

Question 1

Industrial revolution begins in Britain

Answer 1

1760

Question 2

Cholera outbreak in London kills 8,000

Answer 2

1831-1832

Question 3

Poor law amendment act

Answer 3

1834

Question 4

Edwin Chadwick publishes ‘sanitary conditions of labouring population of Great Britain’. Said disease was main reason for poverty.

Answer 4

1842

Question 5

Cholera epidemic kills 12,000. Scared government into doing something about preventing disease.

Answer 5

1848

Question 6

Public health act. Causes setting up of a Board of Health and gave towns a right to appoint a Medical Officer of health

Answer 6

1848

Question 7

Broad street cholera outbreak

Answer 7

1854

Question 8

Dr John Snow diagnoses the waterborne nature of cholera

Answer 8

1855

Question 9

The Great Stink

Answer 9

1858

Question 10

Cholera epidemic in London

Answer 10

1866

Question 11

Reform Act

Answer 11

1867

Question 12

Public Health Act. Enforced lays about slum clearance, provision of sewers and clean water, and the removal of nuisances.

Answer 12

1875

Question 13

Artisan and Labour dwellings improvement act

Answer 13

1875

Question 14

Joseph Chamberlain orchestrated slum clearance in Birmingham

Answer 14

1875

Question 15

Charles Booth publishes Labour and the Life of the People

Answer 15

1889

Question 16

Seebohm Rowntree publishes ‘Poverty, a study of town life’

Answer 16

1899

Question 17

Boer war recruits rejected en masse due to poor physical health

Answer 17

1899

Question 18

Free school meals act

Answer 18

1906

Question 19

School medical inspections begin

Answer 19

1907

Question 20

Old age pensions act

Answer 20

1908

Question 21

Labour exchanges

Answer 21

1909

Question 22

Lloyd George’s ‘people’s budget’ is passed

Answer 22

1910

Question 23

National insurance act

Answer 23

1911-12

Question 24

First World War begins

Answer 24

1914

Question 25

Louis Pasteur Germ Theory

Answer 25

1861-1865