John Snow and the Cholera Epidemic of 1854: The History of the Outbreak and Its Impact on Public Health Measures by Charles River Editors

Author:Charles River Editors
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Charles River Editors
Published: 2020-04-28T16:00:00+00:00

Snow’s map of cholera cases

Fortunately, Snow and Whiting lived in an era when the efficiency of city organizations was at its historical best in terms of record-keeping. Britain was always passionately devoted to social statistics, and two decades before the outbreak, the General Register Office of London had begun to keep track of births and deaths within the confines of the city. These records were actually kept for the purpose of transferring wealth by inheritance with greater ease, but Snow was able to use the information for a larger purpose. The Office maintained a system of street addresses with numbers clearly marked on each house, a practice instituted a century earlier. The Register Office established not only who it was that died on any given day or night, but where they died and the cause of death.

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