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

League of Nations was created. See 1921.
International Labour Organisation established to be concerned, among many interests,
with occupational diseases and safety in industry.
International Red Cross (see 1863) extended its activities to include help for the
victims of natural disasters.
Dysentery and malaria became notifiable.
1919 Cont
1919 cont University Grants Committee established as an independent standing committee
to allocate the government's grant between universities, which for the first time exceeded £1
million .
E Rutherford (later Lord, 1871-1937, physicist at Manchester and Cambridge
universities) changed the atomic nucleus by bombarding nitrogen with alpha particles,
thereby artificially transmuting an element.
"An Outline of the Practice of Preventive Medicine" by Sir George Newman (see
above) published by the HMSO. Newman set out the principal elements of a national policy,
including sanitation, industrial hygiene, health education, maternity and child welfare and the
prevention of infectious and non-infectious diseases.
The Welsh Branch of the Society of Medical Officers of Health formed.
Report of the Women's Advisory Committee to the Minister of Reconstruction on the
Domestic Servant Problem. See 1923.
The planning of Welwyn Garden City started by E Howard (see 1903).
J Alcock (UK) and AW Brown (USA) made the first flight across the Atlantic from
Newfoundland to Ireland.