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Public health- individuals

When did the mayor of coventry proclaim that every person had to clean the street in front of their house?

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1421

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Public health- individuals

How much did the mayor of coventry fine for not cleaning outside your house?

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12 p

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Public health- individuals

How many sewers did Joseph Bazalgette build?

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1 million

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Public health- individuals

How long were Joseph bazalgettes sewers and how much sewage did they remove?

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420 million gallons per day

83 miles

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Public health- individuals

When did Joseph Bazalgette begin building his sewers?

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1858

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Public health- individuals

When did smallpox vaccines become free for all infants?

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1840

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Public health- individuals

When did smallpox vaccines become compulsory for everyone?

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1853

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Public health- individuals

When and how much was Jenner given to continue his work?

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Β£10,000

1802

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Public health- individuals

When was the beverage report written?

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1942

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Public health- individuals

How many copies did the Beverage report sell?

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100,000

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Public health- Government

During the Black Death, when did king Edward III order people to clean streets?

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1348

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Public health- Government

When were the liberal reforms introduced?

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1906

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Public health- Government

What did the liberal reforms introduce?

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Pensions, free school meals, national insurance

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Public health - Government

When was the NHS created?

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1948

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Public health- Government

How much did life expectancy increase by after the NHS?

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66-83 for women

64-79 for men

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Public health- Government

During the great plague when did the mayor of london lock city gates?

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June 1665

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Public health- Government

During the great plague how long were people quarantined for?

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40 days

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Public health- Government

When was the sanitary act that made local governments responsible for public health?

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1866

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Public health- Government

When was the public health act introduced?

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1875

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Public health- Science

How many hospitals did Bagdad have by 1000?

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5

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Public health- Science

What was the name of Jenners book, written in 1798?

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β€œAn inquiry into the causes and effects of cowpox”

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Public health- Science

When did John snow close water pumps in broad street?

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1854

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Public health- Science

How many people died from cholera leading to Snow closing water taps?

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700 people

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Surgery - Warfare

What war did John Arderne work in?

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100 years war

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Surgery - Warfare What did Arderne create during the 100 year war to reduce cauterisation ?
Ointment of hemlock, opium and henbane
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Surgery - Warfare What war did Pare work in?
Italian war
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Surgery - Warfare Who invented crow beak clamp?
Pare
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Surgery - Warfare How much did florence nightingale cut the death rate from infection by during the Crimean war?
40% to 2%
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Surgery - Warfare When was the first blood bank set up for casualties?
1915
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Surgery - Warfare Compared from 1914 to 1916 how many people with broken femurs died?
1914 - 80% | 1916 - 20%
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Surgery - Warfare How many donors for blood transfusions were there in WW2?
700,000
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Surgery - Communication What book did Vesalius publish which explained how the body worked?
De Humani Corporis Fabrica
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Surgery - Communication What book did Hunter publish?
The natural history of teeth
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Surgery - Communication When did Pasteur publish his book on germ theory?
1861
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Surgery - Communication Who did Pateurs’s work inspire which lead to him using carboxylic acid as an antiseptic?
Lister
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Surgery - Communication When was MIR scanning introduced by the NHS?
1987
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Surgery - Individuals Who was Abulcasis?
Muslim surgeon who introduced many new ideas that were later brought to Europe
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Surgery - Individuals Why was Da Vinci significant?
Drew many scientific drawings that helped understand medicine eg the wound man
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Surgery - Individuals Why was John Hunter important?
Known for experimental surgery 1785 - aneurism surgery
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Surgery - Individuals What did James Simpson do?
First use of anaesthetic properly. | Used chloroform on queen vic in 1853
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Surgery - Individuals What did Lister do?
Introduced antiseptic surgery. Used carbolic acid (machine invented 1871). Death rates fell from 46% to 15% in 3 years
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Surgery - Individuals What did Chamberland do?
Invented steam sterilisier in 1881 to provide an aseptic environment.
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Surgery - Individuals How much did penicillin reduce death rate among soldiers by in WW2?
15%
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Surgery - Individuals When was the first heart transplant?
1967 by Barnard
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TOD - Individuals How did Thomas Sydenham treat Malaria?
Chinchona bark
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TOD - Individuals When did Edward Jenner begin studying cowpox?
1796 - James Phipps
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TOD - Individuals When was streptomycin invented?
1944
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TOD - Individuals When did Pasteur work on chicken cholera?
1880
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TOD - Individuals When was pasteurisation invented?
1862
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TOD - Individuals When did Koch identify bacteria that caused TB?
1882
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TOD - Individuals When did Ehrlich develop Salvarsan 606?
1910
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TOD - Individuals When did James Lind cure scurvy?
1753
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TOD - Chance Did Bald’s Leechbook actually work?
Yes but not for thought reasons
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TOD - Religion How did they treat people in the cholera epidemics of 1848 and 1854?
4 Humors
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How many hospitals set up in medieval period?
160
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How many villages disappeared because of the Black Death?
1000
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What was William Harvey’s book called?
β€œOn the motion of the heart”
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When was the first foundling hospital opened?
1741
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What did St lukes hospital treat?
Mentally ill patients
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How many people died of the Great Plague of 1665?
100,000 (25% of the population)
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By September 1665, how many people were dying of the plague every week?
7000
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When did thomas Beecham make his first cold powder?
1859
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In 1847 Liverpool, how many people shared 1 room?
40
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What did Edwin Chadwick help to set up?
The clean party in 1844
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In 1831 how many people died of Cholera?
50,000
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How many soldiers were treated for skin grafts by Gilles after WW1
5000
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How many men were identified with Shellshock?
80,000
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How many people died worldwide of Spanish Flu?
20-40 million
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How many Britons died of Spanish flu?
280,000