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 1 September 1854. In the end, it would claim around 600 lives.

Golden Square was not far from Snow’s home on Sa…