health and the people

Question 1

what were living conditions like in the countryside (medieval)

Answer 1

peasants had little to eat and lived off pottage
a fungus called ergot grew on rye causing disease
drinking water was from wells and streams shared by live stock
people dug cesspits to bury their waste

Question 1

what % of people lived in the countryside (medieval)

Answer 1

90%

Question 2

what year was the great famine

Answer 2

1315

Question 3

what % of people were killed in the 1315 famine

Answer 3

10%

Question 4

what did the rich mainly eat? (medieval)

Answer 4

meat and very few vegetables

Question 5

what did peasants live in (medieval)

Answer 5

one room hovels with no chimney

Question 6

what was the medieval time period

Answer 6

1250-1500

Question 7

what were living conditions like in towns (medieval)

Answer 7

towns were smaller and crowded
some conduits brought water to town centre
market towns were polluted with waste
by 1500 most towns employed rakers to clear waste
town children suffered sinus problems due to bad air
houses shared a latrine which was emptied by gongfermers

Question 8

what year was the black death

Answer 8

1348

Question 9

how many people did the black death kill

Answer 9

40%

Question 10

what did medieval people think caused the black death

Answer 10

punishment from god
miasma
touch
realignment of the planets

Question 11

what did the king order in 1349

Answer 11

streets of London to be cleaned

Question 12

how did people ‘prevent’ the black death

Answer 12

prayer
going to church
flagellants
burned scented wood
avoid baths
doctors ran away

Question 13

what attempts were made to improve public health by church and towns (medieval)

Answer 13

monasteries built clean places
Bristol removed dung heaps
guilds to check quality of meat
fines for dumping waste into the Thames
king did not care

Question 14

what is the time period of the early modern

Answer 14

1500-1750

Question 15

what were living conditions like in the countryside (early modern)

Answer 15

farming methods become better
still famines
coal industry grew
towns doubled as people migrated towns

Question 16

what were the new products brought from America (early modern)

Answer 16

potatoes
peppers
coffee
sugar

Question 17

what did the coal industries cause

Answer 17

more respiratory illnesses

Question 18

what was living conditions like in towns (early modern)

Answer 18

bigger
more stone houses
animals still roamed the streets
piped water into the homes of the rich
waste ended in dunghills

Question 19

where did poor people live in the early modern towns

Answer 19

overcrowded hovels that were damp

Question 20

how did the poor get water in early modern towns

Answer 20

water sellers
conduits

Question 21

what year was the great plague

Answer 21

1665

Question 22

how many people did the great plague kill in london

Answer 22

100 000

Question 23

what did the plague orders do

Answer 23

closed theatres
cats and dogs killed
bodies collected on a night for mass graves

Question 24

how many plague orders were passed in 1578

Answer 24

17

Question 25

what stopped the gin craze

Answer 25

1751 gin act people deported to Australia killed

Question 26

what did people do to improve public health

Answer 26

towns passed more laws York had to clean its streets twice a week the centre of London was built more spaciously after the great fire of london

Question 27

what year was the great fire of london

Answer 27

1666

Question 28

what was the time period for the industrial revolution

Answer 28

1750-1900

Question 29

who had the first germ theory

Answer 29

louis Pasteur

Question 30

problems with housing (industrial)

Answer 30

towns grew rapidly terrible overcrowding limited fresh food poison from food

Question 31

in Liverpool 1840 how many people lived in cellars

Answer 31

40 000

Question 32

which diseases spread easily among people (industrial)

Answer 32

typhus TB

Question 33

what was the problem with water and waste

Answer 33

water companies set up pumps in the street biggest problem was caused by waste middle class had flushing water that went into rivers

Question 34

what attitude did the government have (industrial)

Answer 34

laissez-faire

Question 35

Responses to cholera outbreak

Answer 35

terrified of symptoms people attacked cholera hospital in Leeds government called a day of prayer towns burned barrels to get rid of miasma slow scientific discoveries

Question 36

who discovered the cause of cholera

Answer 36

john snow

Question 37

what did Chadwick's report do

Answer 37

created the first non compulsory public health act

Question 38

how did the great stink become 'solved'

Answer 38

Bazalgette built the london sewer system

Question 39

what year did working class men get the vote

Answer 39

1867

Question 40

what did the 1875 public health act force people to do

Answer 40

build sewers for clean water

Question 41

what was the time period of the modern period

Answer 41

1900-now

Question 42

what was the housing act 1919

Answer 42

made the council build council houses

Question 43

by 1975 what % of people lived in council houses

Answer 43

42%

Question 44

what did WW2 rationing do

Answer 44

improved diets for a few years

Question 45

how many houses were destroyed in WW2

Answer 45

475 000

Question 46

what happened in 1956

Answer 46

clean air act

Question 47

what is the problem with modern life style

Answer 47

not active enough leading to heart problems

Question 48

what was changed in a modern food

Answer 48

fridges food canned fast food

Question 49

was there any problem with water after industrial period

Answer 49

no due to the sewer system made by joseph basalguette

Question 50

what changed in waste in the modern period

Answer 50

smoking was the only problem so they created the clean air act 1950s

Question 51

what was housing like in the modern period

Answer 51

no more slums council homes

Question 52

what were the governments campaigns in modern period

Answer 52

smoking - lung cancer lifestyle - obesity

Question 53

what caused obesity

Answer 53

change in lifestyle - cars - fast food

Question 54

what were the medieval factors affecting health

Answer 54

king was not bothered no scientific understanding no taxes

Question 55

what were the early modern factors affecting health

Answer 55

reformation plague orders made by Henry VIII and Elizabeth

Question 56

what were the industrial factors affecting health

Answer 56

laissez-faire gov scientific understanding votes germ theory reformers calling for change

Question 57

what were the modern factors affecting health

Answer 57

lifestyle government scientific understanding

Question 58

what years was the spanish flu

Answer 58

1918-1919

Question 59

why did the government act so slow toward the spanish flu

Answer 59

because of the war

Question 60

what did the chief medical officer do about the spanish flu

Answer 60

he acted too slow local authority made advice -face covering -isolation -porridge chief officer created a film but there wasn't enough

Question 61

what is AIDs

Answer 61

caused from sharing bodily fluids HIV turns into AIDs

Question 62

what was the first phase of AIDs

Answer 62

7 people die in the england terrance higgins trust caused by blood transfusions media called it the gay plague

Question 63

what was the second phase of AIDs

Answer 63

misinformation from gov RCON - 1 million cases by 1991 OTT advice

Question 64

what was the third phase of AIDs

Answer 64

1986 testing, needle exchanges, gov advice princess diana hugs AIDs patients shows its not caused through touch

Question 65

what was the fourth phase of AIDs

Answer 65

acceptance - east enders freddie mercury death 1995 only 25 000 cases

Question 66

what was the fifth phase of AIDs

Answer 66

1996 - antiretrovirals midlead - people thought it was a cure

Question 67

what did hippocrates do

Answer 67

4 houmors if unbalanced you become ill

Question 68

what did louis pasteur do

Answer 68

germ theory non compulsary public health act 1875

Question 69

what did john snow do

Answer 69

establish what caused cholera proven at soho water pump

Question 70

what did joseph basalguette do

Answer 70

created the london sewers still used today after the great stink in london

Question 71

what did edwin chadwick do

Answer 71

he proposed that drains and sewers should be added 1748 public health act