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What were the problems at the start of the 19th century?
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1:overcrowding
2:Cholera 3:Didn't know link between dirt and disease Laissez faire government 4:industrial revolution |
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What year and who tried to make a change?
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1:1842
2:Edwin Chadwick-Civil servent, surveyed and results found that poverty was reason for increased disease to the poor. |
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What year was the first public health act passed but failed? and why did it fail?
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1848
set up board of Public Health Towns could volunteer to have a medical officer ALL VOLUNTARY NOT COMPULSORY! |
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What was the main reason they tried to enforce Public health act in 1848?
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Cholera, as it was killing people rich and poor
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What year was the second publich health act passed, why was it successful and what changes did it come a bout?
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1875
It was succesfull because it was compulsory the changes were that sewers were enforced, Clean water, slum clearance |
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Who found the source of Cholera and detail how!
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John Snow, isolated cholera to a water pump in broad street after he removed it nobody else caught Cholera.
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What year was vaccinations made compulsory for small pox? and who made the cure?
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1853, Edward Jenner.
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What did people think caused these diseases before germ theory in 1861? The theory was wrong but was it useful?
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Miasmas- bad smells caused disease-wrong but made a great focus on cleaniliness and better PH, because it would obviously smell if somebody chucked somebody elses human waste out of the window!
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Other important dates for hospital hygiene?
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1854-Florence Nitingale
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