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- The spread of the disease temporarily slowed during the winter, but picked up again in spring of 1831, reaching Finland and Poland. It then passed into Hungary and Germany. The disease subsequently spread throughout Europe, including reaching Great Britain for the first time via the port of Sunderland in late 1831 and London in spring of 1832.
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Jul 30, 2019 · Science Museum Group Collection Image source. The first appearance of cholera in 1831 was followed in 1837 and 1838 by epidemics of influenza and typhoid, prompting the government to ask the lawyer and leading social reformer Edwin Chadwick to carry out an enquiry into sanitation.
Mar 30, 2018 · 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. His father was a laborer and later a farmer.
- Theodore H. Tulchinsky
- 10.1016/B978-0-12-804571-8.00017-2
- 2018
- Case Studies in Public Health. 2018 : 77-99.
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.
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In the mid-1800s, London physician John Snow made a startling observation that would change the way that we view diseases and how they propagate. He created a map depicting where cases of cholera occurred in London’s West End and found them to be clustered around a water pump on Broad Street.
- Mitali Banerjee Ruths
- 2009
May 28, 2018 · An 1854 cholera outbreak in London confounded those who thought the disease was caused by miasma, or foul air. Enter John Snow, who had already made a name for himself by administering chloroform to Queen Victoria during childbirth. Snow was skeptical of the reigning miasmatic theory of disease because of his own experiences fighting cholera.
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...
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.
