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Coordinates: 51°30′48″N 00°08′12″W. 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.
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.
- Theodore H. Tulchinsky
- 10.1016/B978-0-12-804571-8.00017-2
- 2018
- Case Studies in Public Health. 2018 : 77-99.
ALAMY. Dr Snow's map showing the cases of cholera in Broad Street, London, 1854. The map helped to identify the source of the outbreak - a polluted water source. In 1854, during the third...
The outbreak of cholera in the vicinity of Golden Square, central London, in the late summer of 1854, and the subsequent removal of the handle from the Broad Street pump, have become an enduring feature of the folklore of public health and epidemiology.
- Howard Brody, Michael Russell Rip, Peter Vinten-Johansen, Nigel Paneth, Stephen Rachman
- 2000
The outbreak of cholera in the vicinity of Golden Square, central London, in the late summer of 1854, and the subsequent removal of the handle from the Broad Street pump, have become an enduring feature of the folklore of public health and epidemiology.
Broad Street pump cholera outbreak of 1854. disease outbreak, London, England, United Kingdom. Learn about this topic in these articles: work of Snow. In John Snow: Broad Street pump and the Grand Experiment. The first study concerned the Broad Street pump outbreak of 1854, which killed many persons in the Soho neighbourhood.
