Responses to cholera epidemics (OCR GCSE History A (Explaining the Modern World)): Flashcards
📚Flashcards
Practise the cards
15 cards from this deck
ShowHide
Practise the cards
15 cards from this deck
Cholera's 19th century nickname
Cholera's 19th century nickname
King Cholera
Cause of cholera epidemics
Cause of cholera epidemics
Dirty and contaminated water
Year Snow discovered cholera's cause
Year Snow discovered cholera's cause
1854
What Snow discovered caused cholera
What Snow discovered caused cholera
Contaminated water
First epidemic deaths (1831-32)
First epidemic deaths (1831-32)
About 32,000
Second outbreak deaths (1848-49)
Second outbreak deaths (1848-49)
53,000
Third epidemic deaths (1853-54)
Third epidemic deaths (1853-54)
20,000 people
Fourth outbreak deaths (1865-66)
Fourth outbreak deaths (1865-66)
About 15,000
1858: Thames smell stopped Parliament
1858: Thames smell stopped Parliament
The Great Stink
Cholera symptoms
Cholera symptoms
Vomiting and diarrhoea
Theory: bad air/smell caused cholera
Theory: bad air/smell caused cholera
Miasma theory
Snow's method to prove waterborne theory
Snow's method to prove waterborne theory
Mapping cases in Broad Street, Soho
Year of first Public Health Act
Year of first Public Health Act
1848
Published 1842 sanitary conditions report
Published 1842 sanitary conditions report
Edwin Chadwick
1875 Public Health Act created
1875 Public Health Act created
Local Boards of Health