The welfare state and the NHS

12 questions

1. What does laissez-faire mean?
2. ___ are tiny living organisms that cause disease.
3. Which technology, first used in the 1890s, allowed doctors to see inside the body without surgery?
4. Which 19th-century law required local authorities to provide clean water and sewers?
5. ___ are medicines that treat infections caused by bacteria.
6. ___ is the hereditary information carried in all living cells.
7. A ___ state is a system in which the government accepts responsibility for protecting people's quality of life.
8. In which year was the NHS founded?
9. How many new houses were built each year in the UK by 1953?
10. Why did some people who were relocated from slums to new housing develop breathing issues?
11. In 1951, the NHS introduced fees in which of the following areas?
12. Which statement is correct?

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