Cholera
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- Created on: 27-05-18 16:33
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- Cholera 19 Century
- Conditions
- poor people lived in slums close together
- Water used was mixed with human filth
- Theories
- Believed to be a result of miasma from sewage or rotting corpses
- four humours
- wouldn't work, only increase dehydration
- bled victims or prescribed laxatives
- Recovery
- Poor: prayer or care in local charity hospitals
- 1854 John Snow
- investigating disease since 1848
- theory: cholera was caught by ingestion
- swallowing water contaminated w/ cholera faeces
- theory: cholera was caught by ingestion
- investigated epidemic Soho, London
- 500 dead=10 days
- inspected water pump on broad street
- mapped out death by cholera near pump
- >80% cholera suffers used pump
- mapped out death by cholera near pump
- investigating disease since 1848
- Conditions
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