SHS Modern Public Health to 1919

What alarmed Army chiefs when recruiting for the Boer War in 1899?

• 40% of the young men who volunteered were declared to be unfit to be soldiers, mostly due to their poor diet and poverty-related illnesses

• 20% of the young men who volunteered were declared to be unfit to be soldiers, mostly due to their poor diet and poverty-related illnesses

• 30% of the young men who volunteered were declared to be unfit to be soldiers, mostly due to their poor diet and poverty-related illnesses

At the beginning of the 20thC, who wrote two special investigations highlighting the plight of the poor?

• Booth and Rowntree

• Watson and Crick

• Florey and Chain

The government set up a special committee to enquire into the....

• 'Poverty of the People'

• 'Physical Deterioration of the People'

• 'Plight of the People'

What were the findings of the 1904 report?

• men were failing to get into the army because they were poor

• men were failing to get into the army because they led such unhealthy lives

• men were failing to get into the army because they did not have the right haircut

What did the government in Britain fear?

• the unhealthy state of Britain's workers might lead to the decline of Britain as a great industrial power

• there would not be enough men in the army

• Britain would not be able to go to war and would lose it's colonies

What were the Liberal Party (who were in government at the time) worried about?

• upper classes

• what they were going to have for dinner

• the popularity of the Labour Party which had been founded in 1900

In 1906 the Liberal Party won the general election and introduced measures that would appeal to the working people.

Name the Year: Free school meals introduced...

• 1906

• 1911

• 1903

Liberal Reforms - Name the Year: Britain's first job centres are built...

• 1919

• 1915

• 1909

Liberal Reforms - Name the Year: National Insurance Act introduces unemployment benefit, medical treatment, sickness pay...

• 1910

• 1911

• 1912

Liberal Reforms - Name the Year: School medical service set up - free medical inspections...

• 1907

• 1908

• 1909