Which disease first arrived in England in 1831?
Typhoid
Cholera
Tuberculosis (TB)
Who wrote a report in 1842 on the living conditions and public health of people in England?
Edwin Chadwick
John Snow
Joseph Bazalgette
In which year was the first Public Health Act passed in England?
1842
1848
1875
On which street in London did John Snow identify the location of a water pump as a source of a cholera outbreak?
Church Street
Oxford Street
Broad Street
Which phrase describes the attitude of people who did not want the government to get involved in spending money on public health reforms?
Laissez-faire
Liberal reforms
Public Health Act
Who designed London’s new sewerage system in 1858?
David Lloyd George
Which event in 1858 led to the government investing in a new sewerage system for London?
A cholera outbreak
The Great Stink
A Public Health Act
Which prime minister brought in the 1875 Public Health Act and other reforms?
Benjamin Disraeli
Why did people move from villages to towns and cities in the 19th century?
Because health care was better
To work in factories
To escape cholera outbreaks in the countryside
Who produced a colour-coded ‘poverty map’ of London that showed poverty was still a significant problem in 1889?
Charles Booth