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WorksheetsOne Fact Public Health
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 8mins
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
How many miles of sewers did Parliament order be built in London after the 1858 Big Stink?10 miles
10 miles
42 miles
63 miles
82 miles
In what year was the first permanent, nationwide Public Health Act?1848
1848
1854
1875
1901
Charles Booth's report on London proved what?
Poverty lead to bad health eg poor food and housing
Cholera was spread in water
The Boer War was wrong
Sewers stopped cholera
What percentage of men trying to join the Army to fight in the Boer War were not fit enough?
10%
30%
40%
90%
Which was a a reform brought in by the Liberal Government of 1906+
Free School Meals
Council Housing
Sewers
Anti-Smoking Campaigns
Who wrote a report attacking the Five Giants including squalor and disease?
Nye Bevan
Seebolm Rowntree
John SNow
Sir William Beveridge
