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When was medieval medicine?
c.1250-c.1500
When was the Black Death?
1347-1349
When was Britain’s first hospital set up?
1123 (St.Bartholomews in London)
When was the Black Death in England?
1348-1349
When did parliament pass the first law requiring streets and rivers to be kept clean by the people?
1388
What year were there 500 hospitals in Britain?
1400
When did the government try to ban pigs on streets?
1281
When were Alms-houses set up?
In the 1300s
When was the sanitary act to keep streets cleaner introduced? (It wasn’t widely supported though)
1347
When did Edmund Colthurst start an artificial river to bring water 38 miles from River Lee in Herefordshire to London?
1602
When did Sir Hugh Middleton continue Edmund Colthurst’s work?
1609
When did Sir Hugh Middleton finish the artificial River?
1613
By what year was water supplied by private companies by piping it to houses/standpipes on street corners?
1750
When did Sir John Harrington invent a water closet (WC) that used water to flush sewage?
1596
When was the Great Plague?
1665
When was the small pox vaccine made by Edward Jenner?
1796
When did Edward Jenner publish his small pox findings?
1798
When was the Jennerian Society set up?
1802
When was vaccination made compulsory?
1852
When did Koch show microbes make wounds go septic?
1878
By what year had Koch identified the germs causing 21 diseases?
1900
When did James Simpson discover chloroform?
1847
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