On the mode of communication of cholera

by John Snow

Thames water fetched in pails.

At Apothecaries’ Row, 5th Aug., the son of a sawyer, aged 10, “cholera 12 hours”

Thames water and pump-well.

Wandsworth. Putney.

At Cooper’s Arms Lane, on 5th August, a bricklayer’s labourer, aged 38, “premonitory diarrhœa 9 hours, cholera 15 hours”

Pump-well.

Wandsworth. Streatham. No death from cholera.

Camberwell. Dulwich. No death from cholera.

Camberwell. Camberwell.

At 1, Rose Cottages, Waterloo Street, on 23rd July, the daughter of a proctor’s clerk, aged 8 years, “cholera Asiatica 15 hours”