Snow's Contemporaries

This portion of the web site contains writings by John Snow's contemporaries who shared similar interests in current medical and public health issues. Some agreed with his interpretations and actions, some took other tacks. Our ultimate goal here is to provide a range of viewpoints on inhalation anesthesia and epidemiology/public health during Snow's lifetime.

Click on the author-title entries below for searchable text of the entire title, or extracts, as noted.

Epidemiology and Public Health

Edmund Cooper's Report to the Metropolitan Commission of Sewers on the house-drainage in St. James, Westminster during the recent cholera outbreak, Metropolitan Commission of Sewers. (London: 22 September 1854)

Rev. Henry Whitehead's The Cholera in Berwick Street, 2nd ed., Hope & Co.. (London: October 1854)

General Board of Health: D. Fraser, Thomas Hughes, and J. M. Ludlow's Report on the Outbreak of Cholera in the Sub-districts of Berwick Street, Golden Square, and St. Anne's, Her Majesty's Stationary Office. (London: 1855)

Rev. Henry Whitehead's "Report of his special investigation of Broad Street", Report on the Cholera Outbreak in the Parish of St. James, Westminster, during the Autumn of 1854 (July 1855)

Cholera Inquiry Committee's Report on the Cholera Outbreak in the Parish of St. James, Westminster, during the Autumn of 1854, J. Churchill. (London: July 1855)

John Simon's Report on the Last Two Cholera-Epidemics of London, as Affected by the Consumption of Impure Water, Her Majesty's Stationary Office. (London: 13 May 1856)

Journal's "Extract from Weekly Return on cholera in West Ham", Medical Times and Gazette (31 October 1857): 457

Editor's "Endorsement of Snow's hypothesis on the recent cholera outbreak in West Ham", Medical Times and Gazette (7 November 1857): 479

Rev. Henry Whitehead's "The Broad Street Pump: An episode in the cholera epidemic of 1854", MacMillan's Magazine (December 1865): 113-22

Rev. Henry Whitehead's "The influence of impure water on the spread of cholera", MacMillan's Magazine (July 1866): 182-90

Rev. Henry Whitehead's "Remarks on the outbreak of cholera in Broad Street, Golden Square, London, 1854 ", Transactions of the Epidemiological Society of London. Vol. 3. Read at a meeting of the Society 6 May 1867. (1868): 99-104

Medical Cartography

Edmund Cooper's Report to the Metropolitan Commission of Sewers on the house-drainage in St. James, Westminster during the recent cholera outbreak, Metropolitan Commission of Sewers. (London: 22 September 1854)

Cholera Inquiry Committee's Plan Shewing the Ascertained Deaths from Cholera in part of the Parishes of St. James, Westminster, and St. Anne, Soho, during the Summer and Autumn of 1854, J. Churchill. (London: July 1855)

Inhalation Anesthesia

Augustin Prichard's "Account of a death from chloroform in Bristol", British Medical Journal (13 March 1858): 207-08