Welsh Examples

Question 1

When did the BLACK DEATH arrive in Wales and where?

Answer 1

• Haverfordwest in 1349, brought from ships in Bristol

- Over half the population died

Question 2

How many people died of the plague (EARLY MODERN)? WALES

Answer 2

• 1650
• Tenby
• 50% percent of people died of the Plague

Question 3

What were the statistics for CHOLERA deaths?

Answer 3

• In 1832, Merthyr Tydfil , 160 deaths

- Long summer of 1849, normal water supplies dried up, people drank from contaminated canals, 396 people died in Cardiff

Question 4

How many people have HIV in Wales?

Answer 4

• 2009

- 1009 HIV positive in Wales

Question 5

When do you use welsh refernces?

Answer 5

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Question 6

How many people died from Smallpox and where?

Answer 6

1722-23, 71 people died in Carmarthen due to smallpox

Question 7

What were the Dynion Hysbys?

Answer 7

• wise men who possessed the power to break spells and unto the evil of witches

Question 8

What were the physicians of Myddfai?

Answer 8

Wrote ways of diagnosing and treating diseases using herbs, surgery, bloodletting and cauterising in the RED BOOK OF HERGEST

Question 9

Who was Sir Robert Jones and what did he do?

Answer 9

• During WW1, he was inspector of military Orthopaedics and made sure THOMAS SPLINT was used on wounded soldiers
• death rate from femur fractures fell from 80 % to 20%

Question 10

What did Martin Evans discover?

Answer 10

• 2007

- he discovered that you could remove and grow stem cells which could then be genetically modified to target diease

Question 11

What was built in Carmarthen and when?

Answer 11

Franciscan monasteries, built in 1282

Question 12

Stas for hospitals in Wales?

Answer 12

• by 1665 there were only 4 small hospitals
• there were only 36 beds for all of North Wales
• There were no Doctors

Question 13

What did the Industrial revolution cause for hospitals?

Answer 13

-Caused voluntary hospitals to open in Wales, first in Swansea in 1817

Question 14

An example of a voluntary hospital?

Answer 14

• 1866, Royal Hamadryad Hospital Cardiff
• treated sailors with infectious diseases
• Dr Henry Paine

Question 15

Who was Betsi Cadwaladr?

Answer 15

• Nurse who cared for in Crimea , went in 1854
• Clashed with Nightingale as she hated the bureaucracy of British Military hospitals
• known for her insistence of keeping wounds clean

Question 16

What happened in Kenfig during Medieval ages?

Answer 16

• it was an offence to dump waste in or near town halls

- residents had to clean pavement outside their house

Question 17

What did Henry de la Bache found in a report on Merthyr Tydfil in 1844?

Answer 17

• no drainage or sanitation
• waste thrown onto streets
• 50 people shared a toilet
• pumps and wells were fed by contaminated surface water

Question 18

What happened as Merthyr Tydfil increased in population?

Answer 18

Houses were built as quickly and as cheaply as possible with no planning regulations

Question 19

Merthyr Tydfil Death rate stats

Answer 19

1855 Merthyr had the 3rd highest death rate in the UK

Question 20

What were improvement to POLLUTION during the 20th century?

Answer 20

• government passed the clean air acts of 1956 to the killer smog in London
• 1950 and 60s saw an emphasis on slum clearance

Question 21

What were improvement to housing in the 20th century?

Answer 21

• By 1939 over 1 million council houses were built
• In wales by 1968 over 70,000 homes had been improved by grants
• In Wales, 1968 10% of houses were unfit for human habitation
• 1998 fallen to 8.5%