Fighting cholera in London in the 19th century

12 questions

1. What word means 'relating to preventing disease by removing dirt and waste'?
2. Which explanation for disease encouraged the use of pavilion plans in hospital designs?
3. What did hospitalism refer to?
4. Which statement is correct?
5. Write the missing number. Nearly ___ nurses trained at the Nightingale School for Nursing between 1860 and 1903.
6. Starting with the earliest, sort the following individuals into chronological order based on when they lived.
7. Write the missing word. An ___ is when a large number of people get the same disease over the same period of time.
8. Who proved that contaminated water can spread cholera?
9. How many people died in the cholera outbreak of 1848-49?
10. Which medical explanation for cholera's spread did John Snow disprove?
11. When was London's new sewage system fully constructed?
12. What prompted the construction of a new sewer system for London at the end of the 1850s?

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