Thus with this one act, the three investigations Among the eight new-comers were John Snow The Committee then decided to seek information by personal interviews, but to The modest returns did not fulfill their expectation. The debate among Committee members continued, andĮventually they decided to expand the inquiry by circulating a questionnaire to Luke's." Snow'sĮxplanation of the outbreak was considered by the Medical Committee, but was "exemplary and indefatigable curate of St. Group seemed to favor the initial report of Whitehead, describing him as the At the same time, the Medical Committee of the Generalīoard of Health was carrying out a local inquiry of its own. Gathering data to test his hypothesis that the spread of cholera was attributed While Whitehead was issuing his initial publication, John Snow was busy No mention was made of the Broad Street pump. Within a few weeks of the epidemic, Reverend Whitehead wrote his own account, entitled The Cholera in Berwick Street (1854). Invariably attended by wholesale demoralization of the population." Surprised as had always heard and read that great pestilences were Population of the area was decimated, there was "no panic which somewhat That many of the news reports were exaggerated and noted that even though the Whitehead was very troubled by the outbreak and its aftermath. Sufficient hearses to convey them but let us hope this is incorrect. Number of corpses was so great that they were removed wholesale in dead-carts for want of Morning had expired after a few hours of agony and torture. Hear in the evening that one of their neighbors whom they had been talking with in the The shopkeepers have dismal stories to tell-how they would Streets of the tainted district with this powerful disinfectant accordingly the purification takes The parish authorities have very wisely determined to wash all the It great splashes of it lie about in the gutters, and the air is redolent with its strong and not The puddles are white and milky with it, the stones are smeared with Lime." The most remarkable evidence of all, however, and the most important, consists in the continual presence Puts forth a large cask at its door, labeled in gigantic capitals "Chloride of In shop windows, on church and chapel doors, on dead walls, and at every available pointĪppear parochial hand-bills directing the poor where to apply for gratuitous relief. At every turn the instructions of the new Board of Health stare you in theįace. The shop windows are filled with placards relating Topic of conversation is the recent epidemic. Men and women in mourning are to be found in great numbers, and the chief Through the streets which compass that district will see many evidences of the alarming severity The outbreak of cholera in the vicinity of Golden Square is now subsiding, but the passenger A newspaper correspondent for the Times described on Septemwhat he had seen. His painstaking inquiry into Broad Street pump outbreak.Īfter deducing the source of the Broad Street pump outbreak,Ĭonvinced the Board of Guardians to have the handle removed from the pump. Hisįriendliness and social acceptance proved of great value to him in 1855 during the four months of Following his ordination as a deacon inġ851, Whitehead took up his duties among the residents of the crowded slums of the Berwick StreetĪrea and became a welcome visitor in the homes of his parishioners. Saint Luke's had been completely rebuilt in a decorated Gothic style in 1838-9Īnd was popular in the parish that included Broad Street and its environs. The Broad Street pump outbreak (see red site in map). Luke’sĬhurch, Berwick Street ( center right, labelled "ch" above King Street ) in Soho, London, near the home of Dr. His first employment was as assistant curate (i.e., junior priest) with the Vicar of St. in 1850, he left for London to seek ordination. It was here that he made up his mind to enter theĪnglican Church. Lincoln College, University of Oxford ( lower left ). Henry was the eighth of ten children and grew up in the school, where later heīecame an assistant master. His father was master at Chatham House, a small public school in the area. Reverend Henry Whitehead (1825-96), shown here in 1884 at age 59, was born on SeptemberĢ2,1825 in the seaside town of Ramsgate ( middleĬenter ) in Kent by the Straits of Dover. Who was this religious leader and how did he get interested in Of cholera intrigued Reverend Whitehead. So Although he had no formal medical education, the epidemiology
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