Snow's Contemporaries

This portion of the web site contains writings by John Snow's contemporaries who shared similar interests in current medical and public health issues. Some agreed with his interpretations and actions, some took other tacks. Our ultimate goal here is to provide a range of viewpoints on inhalation anesthesia and epidemiology/public health during Snow's lifetime.

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London Cholera Epidemic of 1853-54

Edmund Cooper’s “Report” to the Metropolitan Commission of Sewers “into the state of the drainage of the houses situate in that part of the Parish of St. James, Westminster, in which deaths have occurred from Cholera to so great an extent” (22 September 1854).

Rev. Henry Whiteheads’s essay, The Cholera in Berwick Street, 2nd ed., Hope & Co. (London: October 1854).

Rev. Henry Whitehead's "Report" for the St. James Parish Cholera Inquiry Committee (July 1855) on his special investigation of the cholera outbreak in Broad Street.

John Simon’s “Report” to the General Board of Health concerning “the Last Two Cholera Epidemics of London, as Affected by the Consumption of Water,” HMSO (London: 13 May 1856).

Rev. Henry Whitehead’s article, “The Broad Street pump: An episode in the cholera epidemic of 1854,” MacMillan’s Magazine (December, 1865): 113-22.

Rev. Henry Whitehead’s article, “The influence of impure water on the spread of cholera.” MacMillan’s Magazine (July 1866): 182-90.

Rev. Henry Whitehead’s “Remarks on the outbreak of cholera in Broad Street, Golden Square, London, 1854,” Transactions of the Epidemiological Society of London 3 (1866-68): 99-104; read at a meeting of the Society 6 May 1867.