On the mode of communication of cholera — John Shaqi
On the mode of communication of choleraSnow, John
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On the mode of communication of cholera
Snow, John
Cholera
—— in the neighbourhood of Broad St., Golden Sq. 38
—— at Hampstead West End (the water being carried from Broad
Street) 44
Explanation of the Map showing the situation of the deaths in and
around Broad Street, Golden Square 45
Table of attacks and deaths near Golden Square 49
Outbreak of cholera at Deptford caused by polluted water 55
Communication of cholera by means of the water of rivers which
receive the contents of the sewers 56
Influence of the water supply on the epidemic of 1832, in London 57
Table showing the mortality from cholera, and the water supply 58
Influence of the water supply on the epidemic of 1849, in London 60
Table showing this influence 62
Communication of cholera by Thames water in the autumn of 1848 66
New water supply of the Lambeth Company 68
Effect of this new supply in the epidemic of autumn 1853 69
Tables showing this effect 71 and 73
Intimate mixture of the water supply of the Lambeth with that of
the Southwark and Vauxhall Company 74
Opportunity thus afforded of gaining conclusive evidence of the
effect of the water supply on the mortality from cholera 75
Account of inquiry for obtaining this evidence 77
Result of the inquiry as regards the first four weeks of the
epidemic of 1854 79
—— the first seven weeks of the same epidemic 82
Tables illustrating these results 84, 85
Inquiry of the Registrar-General respecting the effect of the
water supply of the above-mentioned Companies during the later
period of the epidemic 87
Comparison of the mortality of 1849 and 1854, in the districts
supplied by the above-named Companies 89
Effect of the water supply on the mortality from cholera amongst
the inmates of workhouses and prisons 91
Cholera in the district of the Chelsea Water Company 93
Effect of dry weather to increase the impurity of the Thames 95
Relation between the greater or less mortality from cholera in
London and the less or greater elevation of the ground 97
This relation shown to depend on the difference of water supply at
different elevations _ib._
Effect of water supply on the mortality of cholera in Birmingham,
Leicester, etc. 98
—— in Exeter 99
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