The Labour government of Clement Atlee won the first post-war election with a pledge to implement the recommendations of the 1942 Beveridge Report and improve the social welfare system in Britain.
Within 18 months the disease had become a pandemic that infected up to a third of the entire world’s population.
A potential diphtheria epidemic in Alaska was avoided after a dogsled relay transported vials of antitoxin 674 miles in five and a half days in “Great Race of Mercy”.
On the 12th August 1865 Joseph Lister carried out the world’s first antiseptic surgery using the chemical phenol, otherwise known as carbolic acid.
400,000 women saw their doctors to obtain Enovid contraceptive prescriptions in the first year.
Alexis St. Martin, who had been shot in the stomach, was first treated by US Army surgeon William Beaumont who became known as the ‘Father of Gastric Physiology’.
Mary Mallon, better known as Typhoid Mary, was confined to permanent quarantine on North Brother Island in New York.
On the 2nd February 1852, the world’s first modern public toilets opened in London.
The report drew three main conclusions focused on the effect of smoking on the functioning of the respiratory system.
An iron lung respirator was used for the first time at Boston Children’s Hospital.
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