A Chronology of State Medicine, Public Health, Welfare and Related ...

developed a typhoid vaccine.
1898 Cont - 1899
1898 cont Marie (1867-1934) and Pierre (1859-1906) Curie (French scientists) obtained
radium from pitchblende.
Barbitone first used as a sedative.
"Tropical Diseases", by Patrick Manson (see 1879), published.
1899 Start of the Boer War (1899-1902) in which 9.5 soldiers per 1000 were killed in action,
3.3 died from wounds and 20.4 died from diseases.
London Government Act (62&63 Vict., c.14) created 28 London metropolitan
boroughs from the existing vestries and limited the powers of the London County Council.
This remained the structure of local government in London until 1965. See 1963.
Infectious Disease (Notification) Act (62&63 Vict., c.8) made notification of the
prescribed diseases (see 1889) compulsory throughout England and Wales. A similar measure
was passed for Scotland.
Board of Education Act (62&63 Vict., c.33) set up the Board of Education in 1900 to
coordinate the work of higher grade elementary schools, county technical schools and
endowed grammar schools, taking over these responsibilities from the Privy Council; and to
provide for a register of teachers. See 1918.
Elementary Education (School Attendance) Act (1893) Amendment Act (62&63 Vict.,
c.13) raised school leaving age to 12 years. See 1901 and 1918.
Elementary Education (Defective and Epileptic Children) Act (62&63 Vict., c.32)
empowered local authorities to set up special schools and classes for these children. See
1914.
Small Dwellings Act (62&63 Vict., c.44) empowered local authorities to advance
money to persons to enable them to acquire the ownership of small houses in which they
resided. See 1980.
Association of Port Health Authorities (later Association of Sea and Airport Health
Authorities) founded.
The London School of Tropical Medicine opened next to the Seamen's Hospital (see
1769) at the Royal Albert Dock. See 1905 and 1929.
Coal Smoke Abatement Society founded in London. See 1909.
Aspirin introduced by Bayer.
1900 - 1901
1900 Housing of the Working Classes Act (63&64 Vict. c.59) extended the powers, given to
London in the 1890 act in regard to acquiring land for long-term planning for erecting houses,
to the provincial boroughs. See 1903.
Between 1900 and 1901 about 14,000 soldiers were given typhoid vaccine (Boer War).
Plague became notifiable.
Walter Reed (1851-1902, US Army doctor) proved that yellow fever was transmitted to
man by the bite of the mosquito, aedes aegypti, and in 1901 that the agent was a virus.
JJBV Bordet (1870-1961, Belgian immunologist) and O Gengou (1875-1957)
discovered antibodies.
K Landsteiner (1868-1943, American pathologist)) identified the four main blood
groups.