In 1849 the cholera epidemic was almost equally severe in the districts supplied by each company. "Between the epidemic of 1849 and that of 1853 the Lambeth Company removed their works from ...

While cholera may have been killing people as far back as 400 B.C., it didn't start affecting the Americas until the second cholera pandemic began in 1829. Numerous other cholera pandemics ...

Dr Snow carried out his own investigations and published his findings in a paper entitled On the Mode of Communication of Cholera in 1849. In this paper he theorised that cholera was not ...

But overconsumption, and an outbreak of cholera in 1849 that spurred the construction of a sewage system, which dumped waste into the water, devastated the oyster populations. Soon after the ...