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This event of Cholera killed almost 700 within about 2 weeks. This is one of the worst outbreaks in history as the Cholera killed so fast. John Snow died before he could see his works do good, but after his death people eventually embraced his waterborne theory. If John Snow hadn't been so persistent, we wouldn't have sanitary water systems, and we wouldn't have knowledge of how diseases are spread. If John Snow hadn't acted, there's no telling how many people would have died from Cholera. It could have wiped out thousands, millions. But because of his efforts, millions of lives were spared, and we now understand diseases better.
By Emma Irlmeier
September 8th, 1854
August 28th 1854
The Broad Street Pump handle is removed. The pump was a source of Cholera as the cesspool of 40 Broad Street emptied straight into the water supply. This stopped the cholera outbreak for the most part, but people were still reluctant to believe in John Snow's waterborne theory and still choose the believe in miasma
First person, a baby with an unknown first name, comes down with Cholera. The devoted mother takes care of the infant and dumps out her baby's waste into their cesspool
August 1854
Early Fall of 1854
London is full of scavengers, people with no profession. These people often sift through the dirty waters of the Thames River to try and find little pieces of cloth or anything they can sell. There are so many that if they were to form their own city, it would be the 5th largest city in all of England. Another popular, yet disgusting job are the night soil men who clean out cesspools at night
John Snow (a well respected doctor who founded the waterborne theory) begins work on a map. This map shows not only the streets of the area affected by Cholera, but the deaths in each household and how they spread around the water sources, specifically the Broad Street Pump. This helped turn the tables and convince the miasmatists that Cholera was spread by bacteria in water. This caused a revolution and eventually shaped how we live today. This also lead to people making sanitary sewer systems and making sure their water never mixed with their waste.
September 5th, 1854
New board of of health director is appointed, past director Edwin Chadwick, devoted his life to getting rid of miasma (the theory that bad smells in the atmosphere spread disease). Chadwick emptied cesspools into rivers to get rid of miasma, this in result caused the Cholera epidemic to worsen
Scavenger
Broad Street
Pump
Cholera Bacteria
John Snow's Map
Edwin Chadwick
John Snow