John Snow and Joseph Bazalgette
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- Contributions of John Snow and Joseph Bazalgette to Public Health Reform
- Joseph Bazalgette
- He used 318 million bricks to construct London's sewers
- The large sewers he created took waste to the tidal part of The Thames, where it was washed into the Sea
- Chief Engineer for the Metropolitan Board of Works (the association which dealt with PH issues in London)
- His engineering skills almost rid London of Cholera
- Knighted in 1847
- Inherited a medieval sewer system
- Sewers still largely in use today
- John Snow
- Few people agreed with his idea of waterborne cholera
- The medical establishment remained largely unimpressed by his discovery
- Fought an outbreak of Cholera at the Killington Colliery in Newcastle all by himself
- Not a forceful character, and didn't promote himself
- His theory on the cause of Cholera was called "Gentleman's Theory"
- Suspected the Broad Street Pump was the source of the Cholera outbreak
- Working as a GP in Soho in 1853
- He used maps and interviews to discover the cause
- Joseph Bazalgette
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