Britain Exam Questions With Complete
Solutions
1601 - Correct Answers: Poor Law establishes parish as the unit for administering poor relief
1796 - Correct Answers: Edward Jenner's first cowpox vaccination
1819 - Correct Answers: Sturges-Bourne Act empowers parishes to distinguish between 'deserving' and
'undeserving' poor
1831 - Correct Answers: - Central Board of Health and local boards
of health set up
- First cholera epidemic, 31,000 died
1834 - Correct Answers: Poor Law Amendment Act passed; set up to oversee its implementation
1837-38 - Correct Answers: Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens published
1845-46 - Correct Answers: Andover Workhouse scandal
1847 - Correct Answers: Poor Law Board replaces Poor Law Commission
1848 - Correct Answers: - Public Health Act (permissive)
- second cholera epidemic 62,000 die
1849 - Correct Answers: Henry Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor Law published