Welsh Examples Flashcards
When did the BLACK DEATH arrive in Wales and where?
- Haverfordwest in 1349, brought from ships in Bristol
- Over half the population died
How many people died of the plague (EARLY MODERN)? WALES
- 1650
- Tenby
- 50% percent of people died of the Plague
What were the statistics for CHOLERA deaths?
- In 1832, Merthyr Tydfil , 160 deaths
- Long summer of 1849, normal water supplies dried up, people drank from contaminated canals, 396 people died in Cardiff
How many people have HIV in Wales?
- 2009
- 1009 HIV positive in Wales
When do you use welsh refernces?
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How many people died from Smallpox and where?
1722-23, 71 people died in Carmarthen due to smallpox
What were the Dynion Hysbys?
- wise men who possessed the power to break spells and unto the evil of witches
What were the physicians of Myddfai?
Wrote ways of diagnosing and treating diseases using herbs, surgery, bloodletting and cauterising in the RED BOOK OF HERGEST
Who was Sir Robert Jones and what did he do?
- During WW1, he was inspector of military Orthopaedics and made sure THOMAS SPLINT was used on wounded soldiers
- death rate from femur fractures fell from 80 % to 20%
What did Martin Evans discover?
- 2007
- he discovered that you could remove and grow stem cells which could then be genetically modified to target diease
What was built in Carmarthen and when?
Franciscan monasteries, built in 1282
Stas for hospitals in Wales?
- by 1665 there were only 4 small hospitals
- there were only 36 beds for all of North Wales
- There were no Doctors
What did the Industrial revolution cause for hospitals?
-Caused voluntary hospitals to open in Wales, first in Swansea in 1817
An example of a voluntary hospital?
- 1866, Royal Hamadryad Hospital Cardiff
- treated sailors with infectious diseases
- Dr Henry Paine
Who was Betsi Cadwaladr?
- Nurse who cared for in Crimea , went in 1854
- Clashed with Nightingale as she hated the bureaucracy of British Military hospitals
- known for her insistence of keeping wounds clean
What happened in Kenfig during Medieval ages?
- it was an offence to dump waste in or near town halls
- residents had to clean pavement outside their house
What did Henry de la Bache found in a report on Merthyr Tydfil in 1844?
- no drainage or sanitation
- waste thrown onto streets
- 50 people shared a toilet
- pumps and wells were fed by contaminated surface water
What happened as Merthyr Tydfil increased in population?
Houses were built as quickly and as cheaply as possible with no planning regulations
Merthyr Tydfil Death rate stats
1855 Merthyr had the 3rd highest death rate in the UK
What were improvement to POLLUTION during the 20th century?
- government passed the clean air acts of 1956 to the killer smog in London
- 1950 and 60s saw an emphasis on slum clearance
What were improvement to housing in the 20th century?
- By 1939 over 1 million council houses were built
- In wales by 1968 over 70,000 homes had been improved by grants
- In Wales, 1968 10% of houses were unfit for human habitation
- 1998 fallen to 8.5%
