Trust the Evidence

Trust the Evidence

John Snow, Asiatic Cholera and the inductive-deductive method

Lecture 11: The Broad Street outbreak

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Oct 26, 2023
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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 ha…

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