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The Broad Street cholera outbreak (or Golden Square outbreak) was a severe outbreak of cholera that occurred in 1854 near Broad Street (now Broadwick Street) in Soho, London, England, and occurred during the 1846–1860 cholera pandemic happening worldwide.
Health, Civilization and the State: A History of Public Health from Ancient to Modern Times (1998), good coverage of the British record in ch. 8-9. Rosen, George A History of Public Health (1958). online, a standard scholarly history. Sheppard, Francis. London 1808-1870: The infernal wen (1971, reprint 2022) online, see pp 247–296.. Siena, Kevin.
John Snow (15 March 1813 – 16 June 1858 [1]) was an English physician and a leader in the development of anaesthesia and medical hygiene.He is considered one of the founders of modern epidemiology and early germ theory, in part because of his work in tracing the source of a cholera outbreak in London's Soho, which he identified as a particular public water pump.
A history of public health. (2nd ed. JHU Press, 2015), a major scholarly history with focus on Britain, Germany, France and the U.S.; online. Rosenkrantz, Barbara Gutmann. Public health and the state: changing views in Massachusetts, 1842-1936 (Harvard UP, 1972), a major study of the leading state; online; Rosner, David, and Gerald Markowitz.
Epidemics of the 19th century were faced without the medical advances that made 20th-century epidemics much rarer and less lethal. Micro-organisms (viruses and bacteria) had been discovered in the 18th century, but it was not until the late 19th century that the experiments of Lazzaro Spallanzani and Louis Pasteur disproved spontaneous generation conclusively, allowing germ theory and Robert ...
The first London public baths was opened at Goulston Square, Whitechapel, in 1847 with the Prince consort laying the foundation stone. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] The building was demolished in 1989 and the site re-used to build the Women's Library in 2001, which incorporates a faux wash house frontage ( Facadism ). [ 15 ]
Such sanitary sewer overflow can mean streets becoming flooded with a mixture of water and sewage, causing a health risk. [ citation needed ] In redeveloping the Isle of Dogs and Royal Docks areas of east London during the late 1980s and early 1990s, the London Docklands Development Corporation invested in major new drainage infrastructure to ...
Back-to-backs gained an unfavourable reputation for poor levels of health and hygiene. Around the mid-19th century, this form of housing was deemed unsatisfactory and a hazard to health. The passage of the Public Health Act 1875 ( 38 & 39 Vict. c. 55) permitted municipal corporations to ban new back-to-backs, replaced in the next phase of ...