How did hospitals change over time and improve prevention and treatment of illness and disease?

In this lesson you will consider the rate of progress in hospital care and treatment from medieval times to the year 1900. In particular, you will look at the state of hospitals by 1700, the significance of Florence Nightingale, and why hospitals had changed so much by 1900.

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Q1.What term do we use to describe governments who don’t get involved in day-to-day lives of their population?

Active government Lazy government Fairly lazy government Laissez faire

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Q2.Why did the government invest in Joseph Bazalgette to modernize London sewers?

Because of John Snow's findings Because of 'the Great Stink' Because of Louis Pasteur's Germ Theory Because of more working men getting the vote in 1867

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Q3.How many miles of main sewers had been built in London by 1875?

73 83 93 1,100

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Q4.Why was the second Public Health Act more successful than the first Public Health Act?

The first Public Health Act had unpopular rules The second Public Health Act had more popular rules The first Public Health Act wasn't optional The second Public Health Act wasn't optional

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Q5.Which of the following WAS NOT a requirement of the second Public Health Act?

For a public officer of health to monitor outbreaks of disease. To check the quality of food in shops to make sure that it didn’t contain anything that could cause harm to people. To close down public toilets to avoid pollution. Ensure new houses were of better quality, to stop damp and overcrowding.

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Q1.What term do we use to describe governments who don’t get involved in day-to-day lives of their population?

Active government Lazy government Fairly lazy government Laissez faire

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Q2.Why did the government invest in Joseph Bazalgette to modernize London sewers?

Because of John Snow's findings Because of 'the Great Stink' Because of Louis Pasteur's Germ Theory Because of more working men getting the vote in 1867

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Q3.How many miles of main sewers had been built in London by 1875?

73 83 93 1,100

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Q4.Why was the second Public Health Act more successful than the first Public Health Act?

The first Public Health Act had unpopular rules The second Public Health Act had more popular rules The first Public Health Act wasn't optional The second Public Health Act wasn't optional

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Q5.Which of the following WAS NOT a requirement of the second Public Health Act?

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How did hospitals change over time and improve prevention and treatment of illness and disease?

End of lesson exit quiz for Lesson 19, Medicine through Time.

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Q1.Which word best describes hospitals by 1700?

Hygienic Sanitary Unsanitary Organised

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Q2.Which word best describes hospitals by 1900?

Hygienic Unhygienic Disorganised Unsanitary

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Q3.At the army hospital at Scutari in the Crimea, in six months Nightingale and her nurses slashed the death rate from…

50% to 2%, 40% to 2% 20% to 4% 44% to 20%

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Q4.What book did Nightingale publish in 1859?

Notes on Doctors Notes on Hospitals Notes on Nurses Notes on Nightingale School for Nurses

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Q5.Which of the following was NOT an achievement of Florence Nightingale?

Nursing became a respectable occupation New hospitals were built out of materials that could be easily cleaned ‘Pavilion style’ hospitals were built where separate wards were built in hospitals to ensure infectious patients could be kept separate Antiseptics were used to clean up germs and prevent them from getting in to begin with

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How did hospitals change over time and improve prevention and treatment of illness and disease?

End of lesson exit quiz for Lesson 19, Medicine through Time.

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Q1.Which word best describes hospitals by 1700?

Hygienic Sanitary Unsanitary Organised

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Q2.Which word best describes hospitals by 1900?

Hygienic Unhygienic Disorganised Unsanitary

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Q3.At the army hospital at Scutari in the Crimea, in six months Nightingale and her nurses slashed the death rate from…

50% to 2%, 40% to 2% 20% to 4% 44% to 20%

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Q4.What book did Nightingale publish in 1859?

Notes on Doctors Notes on Hospitals Notes on Nurses Notes on Nightingale School for Nurses

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Q5.Which of the following was NOT an achievement of Florence Nightingale?

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