Lesson test: The cities

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The cities

1.[3p]
Manchester township grew from about 75,000 people in 1801 to about 303,000 in 1851. What was the annual growth rate, as a percentage?

CorrectNot quite: 2.8

2.[1p]
Manchester and Liverpool grew mainly through natural increase rather than migration.

True

The answer is: False

False

Correct

3.[3p]
Farr's 1841 life tables put life expectancy at birth in Liverpool at about 26 years against about 41 for England and Wales. What drove most of that gap?

Infant and child mortality, which ran far higher in the great towns

Correct

Industrial accidents in the docks and mills

The answer is: Infant and child mortality, which ran far higher in the great towns

Emigration of healthy adults to America

The answer is: Infant and child mortality, which ran far higher in the great towns

Deaths from cholera, which killed more than any other disease

The answer is: Infant and child mortality, which ran far higher in the great towns

4.[2p]
A city of 300,000 has a crude death rate of 33 per thousand while the national rate is 22. How many excess deaths does that give in one year?

CorrectNot quite: 3300

5.[3p]
Which of these are fair statements about miasma theory?

Select all that apply

It correctly predicted that filthy places were dangerous places

Correct

Acting on it, Chadwick flushed cesspools into the Thames above the water intakes

Correct

It was held by Chadwick and by Florence Nightingale

Correct

It was abandoned by British physicians as soon as Snow published in 1855

The answer is: It correctly predicted that filthy places were dangerous places, Acting on it, Chadwick flushed cesspools into the Thames above the water intakes, It was held by Chadwick and by Florence Nightingale

6.[2p]
Which water company moved its intake up to Thames Ditton in 1852?

CorrectNot quite: Lambeth

7.[3p]
Snow counted 1,263 cholera deaths in 40,046 houses supplied by Southwark and Vauxhall. What is that per 10,000 houses?

CorrectNot quite: 315

8.[3p]
Why is Snow's comparison of the two water companies stronger evidence than his Broad Street map?

Their customers were mingled house by house along the same streets, so only the water differed

Correct

It covered more deaths in total

The answer is: Their customers were mingled house by house along the same streets, so only the water differed

It was carried out by the General Register Office rather than by Snow himself

The answer is: Their customers were mingled house by house along the same streets, so only the water differed

It identified the organism responsible

The answer is: Their customers were mingled house by house along the same streets, so only the water differed

9.[2p]
Put these five in the order they happened.

The Public Health Act creating a General Board of Health
The Public Health Act that consolidated British sanitary law
Snow's study of the Southwark and Vauxhall and Lambeth water supplies
The Great Stink, and the vote for Bazalgette's intercepting sewers
Chadwick's report on the sanitary condition of the labouring population

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a, b, c, d, e

1.[3p] Manchester township grew from about 75,000 people in 1801 to about 303,000 in 1851. What was the annual growth rate, as a percentage?

2.[1p] Manchester and Liverpool grew mainly through natural increase rather than migration.

3.[3p] Farr's 1841 life tables put life expectancy at birth in Liverpool at about 26 years against about 41 for England and Wales. What drove most of that gap?

4.[2p] A city of 300,000 has a crude death rate of 33 per thousand while the national rate is 22. How many excess deaths does that give in one year?

5.[3p] Which of these are fair statements about miasma theory?

6.[2p] Which water company moved its intake up to Thames Ditton in 1852?

7.[3p] Snow counted 1,263 cholera deaths in 40,046 houses supplied by Southwark and Vauxhall. What is that per 10,000 houses?

8.[3p] Why is Snow's comparison of the two water companies stronger evidence than his Broad Street map?

9.[2p] Put these five in the order they happened.

1.[3p]
Manchester township grew from about 75,000 people in 1801 to about 303,000 in 1851. What was the annual growth rate, as a percentage?

2.[1p]
Manchester and Liverpool grew mainly through natural increase rather than migration.

3.[3p]
Farr's 1841 life tables put life expectancy at birth in Liverpool at about 26 years against about 41 for England and Wales. What drove most of that gap?

4.[2p]
A city of 300,000 has a crude death rate of 33 per thousand while the national rate is 22. How many excess deaths does that give in one year?

5.[3p]
Which of these are fair statements about miasma theory?

6.[2p]
Which water company moved its intake up to Thames Ditton in 1852?

7.[3p]
Snow counted 1,263 cholera deaths in 40,046 houses supplied by Southwark and Vauxhall. What is that per 10,000 houses?

8.[3p]
Why is Snow's comparison of the two water companies stronger evidence than his Broad Street map?

9.[2p]
Put these five in the order they happened.