Health and the People 2-4

Question 1

What type of society did Britain transform from and to

Answer 1

From agricultural to industrial

Question 2

Proof of the increase population

Answer 2

21 million in 1850
37 million in 1900

Question 3

Examples of towns that had greatly increased popluation

Answer 3

Manchester, Leeds

Question 4

When did working men get the right to vote

Answer 4

1880s

Question 5

How did housing conditions decrease

Answer 5

Slums in overcrowded towns aswell as lodging and back-to-back housing

Question 6

How did food quality change

Answer 6

Poor lived on potatos, bread and butter
Often adulteration

Question 7

How did water quality change

Answer 7

Water companies dominate the water, charging high prices
Poor streets share one pump
Water is pumped from the rivers which is contaminated with human waste

Question 8

How was waste handled differently

Answer 8

Poor share privies with their neighbor
Sewage collected into cesspits which are contaminated
Rich families had flushing toilets

Question 9

When did cholera arrive in England

Answer 9

1831

Question 10

When were all the cholera epidemics

Answer 10

1831, 1848, 1854, 1866

Question 11

Beliefs about where Cholera came from

Answer 11

Spread through touch, miasma theory, punishment from God

Question 12

When was the Cholera Bill and what did it do

Answer 12

1846 connected homes to sewers to decrease mia sa but on;y increased the spread of cholera

Question 13

What did John Snow do and when

Answer 13

1854 proved cholera was caused by contaminated water

Question 14

When was the Great Stink

Answer 14

1858

Question 15

How was the Great Sink solved

Answer 15

Parliament gave £3 million to Joseph Bazzalgette to build 1300 miles of sewers across London

Question 16

Public health acts in the industrial period

Answer 16

1848 allowed local authorities to set up Boards of Health, however was not compulsory
1875 forced public health authorities to take control of their sewage and water supply

Question 17

Why did the government move away from lassiez-faire

Answer 17

In 1880s working men got the right to vote
In 1861 Louis Pasteur publishes germ theory, disproving prior beliefs
Edwin Chadwick publishes The Sanitary Condition of the Labouring poor in 1842

Question 18

MODERN BRITAIN

Answer 18

MODERN BRITAIN

Question 19

How did Politics, Culture, Economy and Society change throughout Modern Britain

Answer 19

1900
Working men over age of 21 have the right to vote
People believe in God and go to Church and play football
Most people are in labour jobs and new technologies like cars boost the economy
37 million people, most in lower class
2000
Welfare state, all men and women over 18 can vote
People consider science more, time spent on leisure
People work in service jobs and technology like internet boost economy
Population is 58 million and more middle class

Question 20

How did housing change in Modern Britain

Answer 20

1919 Housing act causes for council houses to be built
1945 ‘new towns’ built to avoid overcrowding
‘Right-to-by’ led to shortage in council housing

Question 21

How did food change in Modern Britain

Answer 21

Fast food consumption increase
Refrigeration technology
Suipermarkets increase food variety

Question 22

How did air quality change in Modern britain

Answer 22

Coal burning from factories increases smog
Car use leads to air pollution

Question 23

What happened with inactivity in Modern Britain

Answer 23

Car ownership
Leisure like TV

Question 24

When was the Spanish Flu

Answer 24

1918

Question 25

How many did the Spanish Flu kill worldwide

Answer 25

50 million

Question 26

Government response to Spanish Flu

Answer 26

Mass graves used as wood ran out for coffins
Did not issue advice until 1918
Local authorites have to handle decisions
Dr. Wise on influenza produced to advise, however not enough copies produced

Question 27

Government responses to AIDS in the EARLY 1980s

Answer 27

Newspapers and media call it the gay plague
and blamed on drug users as well
Government said that AIDS was spread through touch

Question 28

Government responses to AIDS in the LATE 1980s

Answer 28

‘Don’t die of ignorance’ leaflet was sent to every household
Hospitals provide free testing for HIV
1987 Princess Dianna was photographed shaking hands with AIDS carriers

Question 29

Governments improvement to public health

Answer 29

The NHS was made in 1948 offers care ‘from careful to grave’
Dental Hospital care Prescriptions GP

Pollution
1956 the clean air act is passed

Anti-smoking
1964 anti-smoking adverts
2007 smoking banned in public areas
2016 Blank packaging

Healthy lifestyles
5-a-day
Couch to 5k