Trust the Evidence

Trust the Evidence

John Snow, Asiatic Cholera and the inductive-deductive method

Lecture 13: Farr’s Law of epidemics

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Nov 02, 2023
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We have seen the spatial distribution of deaths in the area of the Broad Street pump. Snow adds to this with a time distribution showing that the peak of the outbreak occurred in the first two days o…

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