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The third cholera pandemic (1846–1860) was the third major outbreak of cholera originating in India in the 19th century that reached far beyond its borders, which researchers at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) believe may have started as early as 1837 and lasted until 1863. [1]
The Broad Street cholera outbreak (or Golden Square outbreak) was a severe outbreak of cholera that occurred in 1854 near Broad Street (now Broadwick Street) in Soho, London, England, and occurred during the 1846–1860 cholera pandemic happening worldwide.
In London, it was the worst outbreak in the city's history, claiming 14,137 lives, over twice as many as the 1832 outbreak. Cholera hit Ireland in 1849 and killed many of the Irish Famine survivors, already weakened by starvation and fever. [ 28 ]
An outbreak of cholera in Chicago in 1854 took the lives of 5.5% of the population (about 3,500 people). [15] [32] In 1853–54, London's epidemic claimed 10,738 lives. Throughout Spain, cholera caused more than 236,000 deaths in 1854–55. [33] In 1854, it entered Venezuela; Brazil also suffered in 1855. [25]
Third cholera pandemic: 1846–1860 Worldwide Cholera: 1 million+ [149] 1853 Ottoman Empire plague epidemic 1853 Ottoman Empire: Bubonic plague: Unknown [150] 1853 Copenhagen cholera outbreak: 1853 Copenhagen, Denmark Cholera: 4,737 [151] 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak: 1854 London, England Cholera: 616 [152] 1855 Norfolk yellow fever ...
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic – and How it Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World is a book by Steven Berlin Johnson in which he describes the most intense outbreak of cholera in Victorian London and centers on John Snow and Henry Whitehead. [1] It was released on 19 October 2006 through Riverhead.
There was a major outbreak of cholera in London in 1849 which killed around 15,000 people. Early industrialisation had made London the most populous city in the world at the time, and the River Thames was heavily polluted with untreated sewage.
John Snow (15 March 1813 – 16 June 1858 [1]) was an English physician and a leader in the development of anaesthesia and medical hygiene.He is considered one of the founders of modern epidemiology and early germ theory, in part because of his work in tracing the source of a cholera outbreak in London's Soho, which he identified as a particular public water pump.