Question | Answer |
Edwin Chadwick - 1834 | Appointed secretary of poor law commissioners |
Edwin Chadwick - 1842 | Releases a report on the sanitary conditions of the labouring populations of Great Britain |
Edwin Chadwick - 1848 | Appointed secretary of the public health act |
Edwin Chadwick - 1854 | General Board of health dismissed |
Dr. John Simon - 1848 | Appointed medical officer of health for london |
Dr. John Simon - 1854 | General board of health dismissed |
Dr. John Simon - 1858 | Responsibility of public health passed to privy council, Dr. Simon named medical officer |
Dr. John Simon - 1875 | Second public health act - Changed from permissive to FORCED |
Dr. William Duncan - 1848 | Appointed medical officer of health in Liverpool |
Dr. William Duncan - 1854 | General board of health dismissed |
Dr. John Snow - 1848 | Finds that there is 8 times as many deaths amongst those who chose to drink from a certain water company which obtained its water from an area of the Thames where the sewerage of over 2 million people was disposed |
Dr. John Snow - 1852 | Public outcry leading to passing of metropolitan water act |
Dr. John Snow - 1854 | Broad street pump incident |
What was Dr. William Budd's contribution? | He found that something could be added to water to reduce the potently of infection |
Who were the miasmatics? | Dr. John Simon & Edwin Chadwick |
Who were the contagionists? | Dr. John Snow & Dr. William Budd |
What is the epidemic constitution theory? | Cyclical occurrences of disease were attributed to environmental conditions (droughts, famine, floods, etc.) |