The first person to get Cholera and to spread it to the rest of London.
Who is Baby Lewis?
The Latin name for Cholera
What is Vibrio Cholerae?
Men who collected human waste for pay.
Who are the Night Soil Men?
One's circumstances, what people have access to for health and enjoyment of life, or quality of living
ex., shelter, food, clothing, safety, access to clean water, etc.
What is "living conditions?"
"The Father of Modern Epidemiology"
The doctor who traced cholera back to the Broad St. Pump
He believed cholera came from contaminated water, not air.
Who is John Snow?
The only way to get cholera
(Hint: not by breathing it in)
What is Ingestion?
(specifically, within the small intestine)
Evidence collected informally, by sharing stories, or talking.
What is "anecdotal evidence?"
Using critical thinking to discover something, especially for illness or to answer a question about the world.
What is scientific process, research, or method?
The priest who disproved the false theories about cholera and helped trace cholera's outbreak.
Who is Henry Whitehead?
The best way to get better when you have cholera.
What is Hydration or drinking lots of water?
The tendency to favor only evidence that supports what you believe.
What is "Confirmation Bias?"
The way a city is set up
Includes sewage and plumbing, living spaces, water access, street planning, etc.
What is Urban Planning and Urban growth?
Famous Victorian author who wrote about poor social conditions.
Wrote this sentence in Bleak House,
"Jo lives — that is to say, Jo has not yet died — in a ruinous place[. . .] "
Who is Charles Dickens?
Where most people who got Cholera got their water.
What is the Broad Street Pump?
The belief that people can get sick from bad, or "noxious," smells.
What is the Miasma Theory?
A visual way to collect and display information
What is maps and mapmaking?
Reformed the "Poor Laws" and Public Health policy
Helped created modern sewage system in London but ordered sewage to be dumped in the Thames River (which helped spread Cholera)
Who is Edwin Chadwick?
The main symptoms of cholera
What is vomiting and diarrhea?
This word means "useful" and that whether or not something is "good" or "bad" is measured by its consequences (ie, whether it helped or hurt people).
What is "utilitarian?"
Conditions relating to public health, especially the provision of clean drinking water and adequate sewage disposal.
What is Sanitation and Sanitary Conditions?