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.

Today cholera is indelibly linked with water. However, 150 years ago it was much different. At the end of August 1854 London's third big cholera outbreak was beginning. The accepted thinking was that ...

left: John Snow, 1856, right: Map of 1854 Broad Street Cholera Outbreak, Soho, London, by Dr John Snow, A deadly cholera epidemic sweeps through a poor neighborhood in London, in Victoria episode ...

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 ...

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.