John Snow discovered that Cholera was spread in water by removing the pump handle from Broad St pump
Jenner invented vaccination in 1790. This meant giving one slight disease to avoid getting a much worse disease.
Innoculation is when you are infected by a tiny amount of a weak strain of a disease to prevent you getting a full-blown version of the disease.
The Great Stink of 1884 prompted Londoners to act and they paid Bevan to build the sewer system
The 1848 Public Health Act forced towns to take control and tackle their water supply problems and their sewerage problems that were causing disease.
Pasteur proved GERMS cause diseases in humans in 1861.
Overcrowding and poor housing were responsible for the deaths of thousands during the Industrial Revolution
In 1944 Edwin Chadwick compiled a Report showing how dangerously unhealthy towns and cities were.
Galen’s ideas were still important as bloodletting carried on until 1900.
Miasma or bad air was thought o be a major cause of disease and death.
Training for doctors became more rigorous and difficult through the Industrial Revolution and 20th C. You had to train for many years and gain a qualification.
In 1854 Nightingale went to the Crimea to set up a hospital. She was so successful she cut the death rate from 42% to just 2%.
Garrett Andersen was the first woman doctor to qualify in Britain.