Public Health Facts

Question 1

What year was Snow’s ‘On the Mode of Communication of Cholera’?

Answer 1

1849

Question 2

What year did Snow remove the handle from the water pump on Broad Street?

Answer 2

1854

Question 3

What year was the Great Stink?

Answer 3

1858

Question 4

What year was the Sanitary Act

Answer 4

1866

Question 5

What year did Robert Baker write his report into conditions in Leeds?

Answer 5

1832

Question 6

What year did Chadwick publish ‘The Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population’?

Answer 6

1842

Question 7

What year was the first Public Health Act

Answer 7

1848

Question 8

What year was the Representation of People’s Act (extended voting rights)?

Answer 8

1967

Question 9

What year was the Artisan’s Dwelling Act?

Answer 9

1875

Question 10

What year was the Food and Drugs Act?

Answer 10

1875

Question 11

What year was the second Public Health Act?

Answer 11

1875

Question 12

What year was the River Pollution Prevention Act?

Answer 12

1876

Question 13

What year was the Infection Disease Act?

Answer 13

1889

Question 14

What year did the Labour Party form?

Answer 14

1900

Question 15

What year was Rowntree’s ‘Poverty: A Study of Town Life in ____’ about York?

Answer 15

1901

Question 16

What year did the Liberals win the election to implement the Liberal Reforms?

Answer 16

1906

Question 17

What year were Free School Medical Inspections enforced?

Answer 17

1907

Question 18

What year was the Children and Young Persons Act (Children’s Charter)?

Answer 18

1908

Question 19

What year was the Old Age Pensions Act

Answer 19

1908

Question 20

What year was the National Insurance Act Part 1?

Answer 20

1911

Question 21

What year were school clinics set up?

Answer 21

1912

Question 22

What year was the National Insurance Act Part 2?

Answer 22

1911

Question 23

What year was the Beveridge Report?

Answer 23

1942

Question 24

What year was Booth’s ‘Life and Labour of the People of London’?

Answer 24

1902

Question 25

What year were Free School Meals introduced?

Answer 25

1906

Question 26

What year did Labour win the election?

Answer 26

1945

Question 27

What year was the NHS set up?

Answer 27

1948

Question 28

Which National Insurance Act covered sickness?

Answer 28

Part II

Question 29

How did Lloyd George fund Old Age Pensions?

Answer 29

The People’s Budget

Question 30

When was the Old Age Pensions Act?

Answer 30

1908

Question 31

What was a limitation of the medical inspections?

Answer 31

Parents still had to pay for medication

Question 32

When did the Liberals introduce free school medical inspections?

Answer 32

1907

Question 33

Which countries had overtaken Britain in the industrial revolution?

Answer 33

Germany and USA

Question 34

What percentage of volunteers for the Boer War were unfit?

Answer 34

0.5

Question 35

3 social reformers in the late 19th/early 20th century?

Answer 35

* Rowntree * Booth * Galt

Question 36

Who built the Bournville model city in Birmingham?

Answer 36

Cadbury family

Question 37

3 things the 1875 Public Health Act did?

Answer 37

* local councils were responsible for providing clean water * councils had to provide public toilets * councils had to provide sewers

Question 38

When did some working class men living in towns get the vote?

Answer 38

1867

Question 39

Who was the mayor of Birmingham in the 1870s?

Answer 39

Joseph Chamberlain

Question 40

Which northern town led the way in terms of public health?

Answer 40

Leeds

Question 41

When was the Great Stink?

Answer 41

1858

Question 42

3 limitations of the 1848 Public Health Act?

Answer 42

* It was permissive * The costs were too high * Only a few local authorities took measures

Question 43

3 things the 1948 Public Health Act did?

Answer 43

* it was permissive * it encouraged local authorities to make improvements * local authorities should provide a medical officer

Question 44

What were the main findings of Chadwick’s 1842 report?

Answer 44

The working class was hindered by poverty and poor public health

Question 45

What was Chadwick’s 1842 report called?

Answer 45

The Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population

Question 46

Did Snow come before or after Pasteur?

Answer 46

Before - Pasteur died 3 years before

Question 47

In 1854 who proved that there was a link between cholera and the water supply?

Answer 47

John Snow

Question 48

Cholera hit which town in 1831?

Answer 48

Sunderland

Question 49

What is the term for governments not interfering?

Answer 49

Laissez faire