In 1854, a cholera epidemic swept through the London neighborhood of Soho. In the course of about three weeks, over 600 people died. This incident was, tragically, not unusual in London or the ...

John Snow was an English physician in the 19th century. He is considered to be one of the fathers of modern epidemiology due to the fact that his work traced the source of a cholera outbreak in ...

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 ...

John Snow was an English physician in the 19th century. He is considered to be one of the fathers of modern epidemiology due to the fact that his work traced the source of a cholera outbreak in ...

The John Snow pub with a replica of the original water pump, at right, ... The cholera epidemic of 1854 quickly killed more than 600 people in a neighborhood of London.

After John Snow proved in the 1850s that cholera was spread through contaminated water, ... In the 1990s, Peru ended its cholera epidemic by chlorinating the water supply.

📜 England's Broad Street Pump - Part 1 - Extra History Thanks to his mother's support, John Snow rose from humble beginnings as a coal miner's son and apprenticed to a doctor in Newcastle. As a ...

For from Northwestern India by way of Afghanistan spread the first epidemic of Asiatic cholera which Europe knew. It began in 1826, reached Russia in 1830, England in 1831.

John Snow, the father of modern epidemiology! On September 7, 1854, Dr. John Snow took his research to the officials, who reluctantly agreed to his suggestion and took the handle off a pump.

After John Snow proved in the 1850s that cholera was spread through contaminated water, ... In the 1990s, Peru ended its cholera epidemic by chlorinating the water supply.