RAT 15 - Industrial prevention and treatment

What was the biggest change regarding prevention by 1900?

• the willingness of government to stop disease
• the unwillingness of government to stop disease
• that anti bac was invented
• Florence Nightingale

How were hospitals funded at this time?

• donations
• by the government
• by the church
• by taxation

How were doctors responsible for spreading disease?

• they did not wash their hands between patients
• they were mean
• they wanted people to become ill so they could practice
• they always had colds so kept on sneezing

What was inoculation?

• infecting yourself with a disease to get a less serious case of it
• infecting yourself with a disease to get a more serious case of it
• stopping getting a disease at all
• a cure for a disease

Who developed the first vaccination?

• Jenner
• Lister
• Simpson
• Snow

What disease was the first vaccination created to prevent?

• smallpox
• cholera
• cowpox
• polio

Which group was most in favour of the smallpox vaccine?

• government
• milk maids
• physicians
• chemists

What does laissez fair mean in the context of the British government?

• that they should not get involved
• that they should get involved
• that there needs to be an election
• that people were lazy

Who wrote a report on the health of the poor?

• Chadwick
• Jenner
• Lister
• Pasteur

What year was the Second Public Health Act?

• 1875
• 1848
• 1843
• 1842