... was a massive killer and in 1929 the ministry of health ordered all milk to be pasteurized so that it could not be passed from cattle to humans. From the 1930's free vaccinations for whooping cough, smallpox, scarlet fever, measles and polio. In 1910 a German scientist developed a drug called salvarsan. It was the first drug that selectively killed germs. Also in 1928 Alexander Fleming developed a drug called penicillin that killed most bacterium. All the drugs and law acts passed helped keep Britain healthier and helped increase the life expectancy of everybody in Britain and also helped to create the welfare state. In 1911 the national insurance act was passed. In return of paying insurance the worker got payed on sick pay 10 shillings a week for 26 weeks aswell as free medical treatment. The second part of this act came into power in the next year 1912. This ...

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