Public Health during the Industrialisation
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- Public health during 1750-1900
- Killer diseases (mainly caused by contaminated water)
- Cholera
- Treatments included
- Praying/Lucky charms
- Using chloride of lime
- Burning dead people's things and tar/vinegar
- Smoking cigars
- Treatments included
- Diptheria
- Smallpox
- Typhoid
- TB
- Cholera
- Jenner
- Developed vaccination for smallpox
- Opposition
- Interfered with God's plan
- Vaccinations were not done properly and thus didn't work
- Doctors lost money due to free vaccinations
- It was wrong to give people and animal's disease. (The vaccination came from cowpox)
- Opposition
- Developed vaccination for smallpox
- Pasteur and Koch
- Germ Theory
- Pasteur discovered that microbes cause decay
- Koch linked bacteria to diesease
- Found microbes for anthrax, cholera and TB
- Pasteur's team found that a weakened version of a disease causing microbe could create immunity for that disease
- Koch linked bacteria to diesease
- Pasteur discovered that microbes cause decay
- Germ Theory
- Anasethetics
- James Simpson
- Discovered chloroform was an anaesthetic
- Carl Koller
- Discovered that cocaine was an anaesthetic
- James Simpson
- Improvements in medical training and treatment
- Teaching hospitals
- William Brockedon
- Machine that standardised dosage and production of pills
- The government introduced regulations to prevent harmful ingredients to be put in medicines
- Training in using technology
- More studies on microbes
- Government Action
- Compulsory Vaccinations
- Public Health Act 1848
- Public Health Act 1875
- Clean water
- Clean streets
- High Quality food
- Sewers and drains
- Improvements in Hospital Care
- Florence Nightingale
- Set up a school for nurses and midwives
- Decreased death rate from 42% to 2%
- Believed in Miasma, so she emphasised hygiene and fresh air
- Specialist hospitals, infirmaries and workhouses
- Rich people were treated at home
- Elderly, sick or poor had to go
- Cottage hospitals where GP's gave prescriptions
- Florence Nightingale
- Killer diseases (mainly caused by contaminated water)
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