Investigating Cholera in Broad Street: A History in Documents: (From the Broadview Sources Series)

ISBN 10: 1554813948 / ISBN 13: 9781554813940

Published by Broadview Press, 2020

Seller Inventory # I-9781554813940

Synopsis:

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 caused the outbreak? Local authorities of the time 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 a team-oriented investigation into the causes of an epidemic—a hallmark of epidemiology and public health today.

This collection includes documents from the five separate investigations that were conducted into the possible causes. 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 transmitted, starting with the first pandemic, which reached England in 1831, and it documents how they developed over time.

About the Author: Peter Vinten-Johansen is Professor Emeritus at Michigan State University. He is the lead author of Cholera, Chloroform, and the Science of Medicine: A Life of John Snow, with co-authors Howard Brody, Nigel Paneth, Stephen Rachman, and Michael Rip, and he is the co-founder and content manager of the John Snow Archive and Research Companion.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Investigating Cholera in Broad Street: A ...
Publisher: Broadview Press
Publication Date: 2020
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New