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Response to Cholera - Coggle Diagram
Response to Cholera
Cholera symptoms
Excruciating cramps
vomiting
Uncontrollable spasms even after death
Blueish pallour
Dehydration
Diarrhoea
Coma followed by death
Epidemics
1848
52,000 lives lost
John Snow started to investigate into the causes of cholera
Theorised that cholera was caught by ingestion
Swallowing water contaminated by faeces of other victims
1854
John Snow
1855
Found that Broad Street pump was contaminated by an infected baby's nappy in the local cesspit
The cesspit was leaking into the reservoir for the broad street pump
Mapped out deaths caused by cholera
80% had got their water from the Broad Street pump
Broad Street Pump's handle was removed
Many doctors still believed it was transmitted through the air until Pasteur's Germ theory and Koch's discoveries
Epidemic in Soho
500 lives lost in 10 days
Causes were unknown by early 19th century doctors
Believed to be caused by miasmas or poisonous gasses from sewage/rotting corpses
Imbalance of 4 humours
Purging
This increased dehydration
Poor would have prayed or gone to charity hospitals
Spread quickly through slum housing of the poor
Water was often mixed with human filth