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WorksheetsFactors of Health - Government
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
What is public health?
Curing all the people at once
Giving people medicine
Doing things for everyone to reduce the risk of individuals getting ill
Health done in the open air
What can government do which other factors can't?
Do things because everyone believes the government
Make discoveries
Pass laws to make people do healthy things
Make chance discoveries
What killer disease scared people in Victorian England?
Corvid-19
Smallpox
Black Death
Cholera
What did early Victorians believe caused illness like Cholera?
Germs
Bad Air / Miasma
Spells
Curses from witch doctors
What type of house was thought to cause many public health problems in Victorian England?
Terrace
Flats
Detached
Back-to-Back
What were Bills of Mortality?
The amount a funeral cost
A weekly list of who died of what
The cost of stopping the plague
A face mask worn by a Plague doctor.
Why did the London authorities bury people at night?
It was spookier
They believed that the spirits of the dead could only leave at midnight
For religious reasons
To prevent people coming into contact with the dead
Cats were thought to spread plague. How many were killed in 1665?
40,000
100,000
200,000
400,000
What was the summer of 1858 known as in London?
The Great Cholera
The Great Stink
The Bad Parliament
The Great Parliament
Who did Parliament get to build sewers in Victorian London?
John Snow
Thomas Barnardo
Jose Basil
Joseph Bazellegette
How long were the sewers that were built in Victorian London?
17 miles
21 miles
65 miles
82 miles
In what year did the government pass a Public Health Act which meant everyone had clean water?
1848
1875
1948
1975
Which of the following is a Public Health response made by the British Government has made during the Corvid-19 Pandemic?
Order people to self-isolate
Treat people in hospitals
Treat people at home
Tell everyone they have to exercise for an hour every day
How did local government try to stop cholera in Victorian times?
Burnt barrels of tar
Killed dogs
Call for prayers
closed down water pumps
Which is not a Public Health measure to deal with Corvid-19?
Staying at home
Treating people in hospital
Staying 2m away from people
wearing masks
