cholera

Question 1

when were the cholera epidemics?

Answer 1

1831, 1848, 1854,1866

Question 2

how was cholera spread?

Answer 2

the cholera bacteria was carried in contaminated drinking water

Question 3

what were some of the inaccurate ideas of how cholera was spread?

Answer 3

miasma, many people still believed that it was a punishment from god, some doctors believe that cholera was contagious and could be passed on by touch

Question 4

what were some of the attempts to help cholera?

Answer 4

the 1846 cholera bill instructed residents to connect there houses to sewers in order to reduce miasma, this only increased the flow of waste into rivers, spreading cholera further

Question 5

what did john snow prove during the 1854 epidemic?

Answer 5

he proved that cholera was carried by contaminated water and could be prevented by changing the water supply. however his conclusions were largely ignored