John Snow, Asiatic Cholera and the inductive-deductive method
Lecture 11: The Broad Street outbreak
As Snow and his assistant were busy looking at water provision in South London, news reached him of a terrible outbreak of cholera in the neighbourhood of Golden Square, Soho, central London. This had started in the night between 31 August and 1September 1854. In the end, it would claim around 600 lives.
Golden Square was not far from Snow’s home on Sac…
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