History poverty changes in public health

knowledge

what is a vested interest

when someone personally benefits from maintaining the current situation and resists change

when was the sanitary act

1866

one term of the sanitary act

local authorities had to appoint sanitary inspectors and ensure proper sewage and drainage

Who developed the concept of a ‘garden city’, and what was the concept behind it?

Ebenezer Howard. idea was the blend town and countryside with planned green space and good housing

Name one other significant figure in the provision of housing for the poor

Octavia Hill

Who first discovered the vaccine in 1798. what is the etymology (where does the word

come from) of ‘vaccine’?

Edward Jenner. Word comes from vacca - latin for cow

How many people died in the smallpox epidemic of 1837-40, and in the later 1870-3?

1. 35000-40000

   1. 44000

When was the first compulsory Vaccination Act?

1853

Why was tuberculosis such a deadly disease?

it spread easily through coughing and slowly destroyed lung tissue

Define the process of ‘pasteurisation’

heating a liquid to kill bacteria and then cooling it down again to make it safe

Name one Act relating to keeping children healthy

The childrens act 1908

Why was John Snow significant?

proved that cholera was water borne by mapping deaths and removing the broad street pump handle

Who was the chief engineer for the sewers of London, many of which are still used today?

Joseph bazalgette

when was the great stink

1858

Give a brief description of the work of Marie Stopes

campaigned for womens reproductive health and opened the first birth control clinic in 1921