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Investigating Cholera in Broad Street - A History in Documents (Paperback)
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Investigating Cholera in Broad Street - A History in Documents (Paperback)
Series: Broadview Sources Series
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This book features various accounts of a cholera outbreak in West
London that killed over 500 people in ten days during the late
summer of 1854. What had happened? Local authorities were flummoxed
about the mode by which the disease had spread. What has become
known as 'the Broad Street pump episode' is one of the most
significant early examples of team-oriented investigations into the
causes of epidemic disease - a hallmark of epidemiology and public
health today. This collection includes documents from the five
separate investigations into possible causes that were conducted.
John Snow and Henry Whitehead made independent investigations.
Inspectors from the General Board of Health and the Sewer
Commission as well as a parish inquiry committee also scrutinized
the outbreak. This volume traces competing notions of how this
disease was communicated, starting with the first pandemic which
reached England in 1831, and it documents how they developed over
time.
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