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616. The Broad Street cholera outbreak (or Golden Square outbreak) was a severe outbreak of cholera that occurred in 1854 near Broad Street (now Broadwick Street) in Soho, London, England, and occurred during the 1846–1860 cholera pandemic happening worldwide. This outbreak, which killed 616 people, is best known for the physician John Snow ...
Jul 30, 2019 · In 1848–49 there was a second outbreak of cholera, and this was followed by a further outbreak in 1853–54. Towards the end of the second outbreak, John Snow, a London-based physician, published a paper, On the Mode of Communication of Cholera (1849), in which he proposed that cholera was not transmitted by bad air but by a water-borne ...
Mar 30, 2018 · Between 1848 and 1854, a series of cholera outbreaks occurred in London with large-scale loss of life. One epidemic of cholera occurred in the area of Broad Street, Golden Square, in Soho, a poor district of central London with unhygienic industries and housing. John Snow was born in 1813 in York, England, the first of nine children.
- Theodore H. Tulchinsky
- 10.1016/B978-0-12-804571-8.00017-2
- 2018
- Case Studies in Public Health. 2018 : 77-99.
May 26, 2010 · In September 1854, central London suffered an outbreak of cholera. 1 To stop that outbreak, Dr. John Snow made a map. By seeing, visually, where the cholera deaths were clustered, Snow showed that the water from a pump on Broad Street was to blame. His work addressed an ongoing medical debate — in what is widely regarded as one of the most ...
In 1854, cholera struck Broad Street in London. One scientist, John Snow, thought he could finally prove how this elusive killer spread.From our free online ...
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Aug 18, 2010 · Snow compiled data on the two sets of London households and found that during an 1854 epidemic there were 315 deaths from cholera per 10,000 homes among those supplied by Southwark-Vauxhall but ...
Jan 25, 2010 · London had suffered a series of debilitating cholera outbreaks before the 1853 outbreak, including serious outbreaks in 1832 and the worst outbreak which killed some 14,137 residents in 1849.
