History

• London dispensary for curing disease of int are established at Moorfields

  1805
• Royal free Hospital founded

  1828
• Dr Roberts report on Cholera epidemic

  1831-32
• Cholera kills 20,000+

  1831-32
• Florence nightingale (FN) 3 months in Germany - nurse training

  1833
• Med training took 4 years

  1840
• Alcohol used as anaesthetic & pain relief

  1840
• No nurse training yet in Britain

  1840
• Chadwick report The sanitary conditions of the labouring population

  1842
• Nitrous oxide used in dentistry by Horace Wells

  1844-5
• William Morton uses gas in dentistry


  1846
• Robert Liston uses gas in amputation in Uk


  1846
• James Simpson discovers Chloroform as anaesthetic


  1847
• Prof of med & midwifery uses chloroform in childbirth


  1847
• FN meets SoW Sidney Herbert


  1847
• Miasma, no adv in med due to lack of knowledge of relationship b/w microorganisms & disease


  1848
• MP order day of prayer

  1848
• John Snow solves the issue of days unconsciousness by gas by using chloroform


  1848
• Chadwicks public health act, the board of health (3 commissioners) was set up for five years ending in 1854


  1848
• Public health act


  1848
• Chadwick commissioner for London Met commission of sewers


  1848-49
• 50,000+ death toll


  1848-49
• Smallpox vaccine compulsory


  1852
• Hospital for sick children founded in great Ormond Street London

  1852
• FN becomes superintendent


  1853
• The prof becomes physician to queen Victoria

  1853
• Broad Street pump. Cholera spread by polluted water

  1854
• Louis pasture investigate why beer was turning sour

  1854
• Govt sanitary commission repaired drains, improved drinking water, death toll decline

  1855
• FN return to Britain

  1856
• Great sink


  1858
• Chadwick and snows work on cholera initiated program to build sewers

  1858
• FN Book for recs to hospital about space ventilation and cleanliness

  1859
• Nightingale Met Elizabeth Garrett


  1859
• Nightingale school for training nurses established in London Saint Thomas's hospital


  1860
• Local cottage hospitals started establishing

  c1860
• Challenge good the theory of spontaneous generation be proved by French Academy of science

  1860
• Link between hygiene and health Shown by Chad wick and snow


  1848-60
• Nightingale establish scored for midwives at Kings College Hospital


  1861
• 2000 km of sewer built

  1865