fighting cholera in london

Question 1

when did cholera arrive in britain

Answer 1

1831

Question 2

when did it arrive in lonodon and how many died

Answer 2

february 1832 and 5,275 england and wales 21,882

Question 3

attemps to stop spread?

Answer 3

.clean up filty streats
.gov encouraged citys to set up boards of health and provide clean water

Question 4

John snow?

Answer 4

moved to soho in 1836.
gave victoria chloroform during birth of Leopold in 1851.
observed cholera during 1848-49.he wrote up his theories in ‘on the mode of communicaion of cholera’.

Question 5

what did he write’on the mode of communication og cholera’?

Answer 5

cholera couldnt be transmitted by a miasma because it affected guts not lungs
drinking water wasd being contaminated by the cholera-ridden faeces being sisposed of in the city drains