One Fact Public Health

In the Middle Ages, what did Coventry City authorities ban?

• People going on pilgrimage

• Smoking in public places

• Building toilets over streams

• Building houses out of wood

How did Monasteries improve their public health?

• Diverting water from rivers to provide clean water and wash away poo

• Made every monk wash before prayers

• Make all monks eat five portions of fruit and veg

• Make the monks give up smoking except at Christmas

How many people died in England because of the Black Death in 1348?5%

• 5%

• 10%

• 33%

• 100%

Why were peasants better off after the Black Death?

• They were all made knights

• The price of food went up

• They got more land and so had bigger, more profitable farms

• They didn't have to pay any more taxes

How did Tudor London tried to prevent Black Death Spreading?

• Ordered people to kill all the rats

• Quarantined people who were sick - putting a red cross on the door.

• Gave them a vaccine

• Ordered them to leave the village at once

In what year was smallpox vaccination made compulsory?

• 1798

• 1815

• 1853

• 1948

When Cholera arrived in 1831, why was it like the Black Death in 1348?

• They were both spread by water

• Everyone thought they were sent by God

• They were both new strains / variants and so people had little immunity

• They both killed 50% of the population

In 1842 Edwin Chadwick showed the average age of death for a working person in Liverpool was what?

• 15

• 19

• 33

• 54

How did John Snow prove cholera was spread by water?

• Identified what germ caused cholera

• Took away the Broad Street Pump handle and no one caught cholera

• Used all the death certificates to work out the average age of death

• Ordered people to drink water from the ump to show if they caught cholera

How long did the 1848 Public Health Act last?

• 1 year

• 7 years

• 10 years

• 21 years