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HISTORY - PUBLIC HEALTH 2
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What year was Chadwick pensioned off public service?
1854
What year was the General Board of Health abolished?
1858
Who was the first Chief Medical Officer to the Privy Council?
John Simon
What did the Sanitary Act make local authorities responsible for?
Nuisances to Public Health
Who was a surgeon medical officer for City of London?
John Simon
What was the effect of the 1867 Reform Act?
It gave some working men the right to vote
What did the work of Louis Pasteur prove?
Germs caused disease
What did the Public Health Act of 1875 say authorities had to have?
A medical officer, sanitary inspector
What did the Public Health Act of 1875 say authorities had to do?
Ensure all new buildings were built with adequate sewerage
Who presented a report to Parliament on the 'State of Public Health in England' (1859)?
John Simon
What did Joseph Bazalgette invent?
a comprehensive and interlocking sewerage system
Who was the first chief engineer of the Metropolitan Board of Works?
Joseph Bazalgette
Where and when was the Metropolitan Board of Works established?
London, 1856
What embankments did Joseph Bazalgette oversee the construction of?
Albert, Victoria, Chelsea
What name was given to the explosive diarrhoea that was a key symptom of Cholera?
Rice-water stool
What was the Elizabethan Poor Law also known as?
the 43rd Elizabethan