Health and Hospitals

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Health and Hospitals

Year 11

History

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Industrial Revolution

During the Industrial Revolution there were huge advances made in science and technology.

Huge progress was made in identifying and preventing many diseases. People felt that humankind was becoming god-like in its knowledge and achievements, and that nothing was impossible except the cure of infectious disease - a problem that continued to cause much misery.

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With the advent of industry came industrial diseases such as dermatitis, lung disease and ‘phossy jaw’. (ugh!)

Those most quickly affected were the workers who dipped sticks into phosphorus paste.

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With the expansion of the Empire came contact with diseases such as yellow fever.

With urbanisation came public health problems that included 'filth diseases' such as cholera and typhus.

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By the way…

The real ‘Medical Revolution’ started in France.

After the French Revolution the right to health was one of the 'rights of man' claimed by working people.

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War

Wars were waged on a greater scale (creating mass injuries that were hitherto unknown, and required new medical and surgical techniques).

Who could do the quickest amputation without anaesthetic?!

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Hospitals

With the rapid growth of the population during the 18th and 19th centuries it was obvious that local charities and the workhouse system could not provide sufficient medical care for the poor.

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Westminster Hospital

Westminster Hospital in London, constructed in 1720, was the first public hospital in England.

Founded as a voluntary hospital in a small house in Petty France, Pimlico, with just 10 beds in 1719. It occupied other sites, including one opposite Westminster Abbey and another in Page Street

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‘It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm. It is quite necessary nevertheless to lay down such a principle, because the actual mortality in hospitals, especially those the crowded cities, is very much higher than any calculation founded on the mortality of the same class of patient treated out of hospital would lead us to expect.' Florence Nightingale Notes on Hospitals 1859