Henry Whitehead was a popular priest well known among the residents of Soho who took an active interest in studying the link between cause and effect in the spread of cholera. This idea stood in direct opposition to the prevailing thinking of the time. Armed with the research material he’d already collected, he was convinced that the disease was transmitted by contagion: pass from one person to another. John Snow was already a renowned and respected London anesthesiologist who had been studying the transmission of cholera for several years when the 1854 outbreak occurred. This act becomes the epicenter of the cholera outbreak in Soho in August 1854. Sarah is a young mother with a very ill infant whose soiled diapers she disposes of by tossing them into a cesspool in the front of her house. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community.
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