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Cholera and Public Health

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3 March 1838.
WMS: Snow on contagion and typhus

"Case of acute poisoning by carbonate of lead," London Medical Gazette 35 (22 November 1844): 248-50. Paper read at the Westminster Medical Society, 19 November 1844.

"Case of malignant hæmorrhagic small-pox," London Medical Gazette 35 (31 January 1845): 585-86 [ltr. to ed.].

"The Public Health," Times (7 October 1848): 7a–c.

21 October 1848.
WMS: Snow objects to a common treatment for cholera victims

On the Mode of Communication of Cholera, September 1849.

"The cholera at Albion Terrace," London Medical Gazette 44 (21 September 1849): [ltr. to ed., 15 September 1849].

Presentation: 13 October 1849. "On the pathology and mode of communication of cholera"

Presentation: 13 October 1849. "On the pathology and mode of communication of cholera -- LMG's account"

Presentation: 20 October 1849. "On the pathology and mode of communication of cholera--continuation of discussion from previous meeting"

"On the pathology and mode of communication of cholera," London Medical Gazette 44 (2 November 1849): 745-52. Part 1.

"On the pathology and mode of communication of cholera," London Medical Gazette 44 (30 November 1849): 923-29. Part 2.

"On the mode of propagation of cholera," Medical Times 24 (29 November 1851): 559-62. Part 1. Read at the London Epidemiological Society on 5 May 1851.

"On the mode of propagation of cholera," Medical Times 24 (13 December 1851): 610-12. Part 2. Read at the London Epidemiological Society on 3 June 1851. See p. 610, for Snow's discussion of a water-supply map from the 2nd Health of Towns Report (1845) and Grainger's map (1850) of cholera mortality in London during the 1848-49 epidemic.

On Continuous Molecular Changes, More Particularly in Their Relation to Epidemic Diseases, March 1853.

"On the prevention of cholera," Medical Times and Gazette 7 (8 October 1853): 367-69. Article written/submitted on 27 September. A reprint was subsequently published (London: William Tyler, 1853).

"The water supply at Newcastle," Times (11 November 1853): 8, col. D [ltr. to ed.].

"Cholera and the water supply." Supplement to the Weekly Return, 19 November 1853.

"The principles on which the treatment of cholera should be based," Medical Times and Gazette 8 (25 February 1854): 180-82.

"Cholera in the Baltic Fleet," Medical Times and Gazette 9 (12 August 1854): 170 [ltr. to ed., 5 August 1854].

"Communication of cholera by Thames water," Medical Times and Gazette 9 (2 September 1854): 247-48 [ltr. to ed., August 1854].

"The cholera near Golden-square, and at Deptford," Medical Times and Gazette 9 (23 September 1854): 321-22 [ltr. to ed., September 1854].

"On the communication of cholera by impure Thames water," Medical Times and Gazette 9 (7 October 1854): 365-66 [ltr. to ed., 2 October 1854].

14 October 1854.
Medical Society of London (MSL): Snow disagrees with Mr. Headland's notion that cholera is a blood disease, spread atmospherically, etc.

"On the comparative mortality of large towns and rural districts, and the causes by which it is influenced," Journal of Public Health, and Sanitary Review 1 (1855): 16-24. Paper read before the Epidemiological Society of London, on May 2, 1853. Published as part of the Transactions of the Epidemiological Society.

On the Mode of Communication of Cholera, January 1855.

28 February 1855.
RMCS: Snow on Smith's paper regarding the essential seat of cholera

"Testimony before the Parliamentary Select Committee on the Public Health Bill and Nuisances Removal Amendment Act on 5 March 1855," In British Parliamentary Papers, Vol. 8, 1970.

"On the chief cause of the recent sickness and mortality in the Crimea," Medical Times and Gazette 10 (12 May 1855): 457-58 [ltr. to ed., April 1855].

"Dr. Snow's Report," in the Report on the Cholera Outbreak in the Parish of St. James, Westminster, during the Autumn of 1854, 97-120, July 1855.

Letter to the right honourable Sir Benjamin Hall, Bart., President of the General Board of Health, 12 July 1855.

"Further remarks on the mode of communication of cholera; including some comments on the recent reports on cholera by the General Board of Health," Medical Times and Gazette 11 (14 July 1855): 31-35. Part 1. A substantial portion of this essay was first read at the Epidemiological Society in May and June, 1855.

"Further remarks on the mode of communication of cholera; including some comments on the recent reports on cholera by the General Board of Health," Medical Times and Gazette 11 (28 July 1855): 84-88. Part 2.

"On the mode of communication of cholera," Edinburgh Medical Journal 1 (January 1856): 668-70. [This is the first volume of a new journal, combining the Monthly Journal of Medicine and the Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal] [ltr. to ed., 14 December 1855].

"The mode of propagation of cholera," Lancet 1 (16 February 1856): 184 [ltr. to ed., February 1856].

"The mode of propagation of cholera," Association Medical Journal 4 (16 February 1856): [ltr. to ed., February 1856].

"Cholera and the water supply," Times (26 June 1856): 12, col. B [ltr. to ed.].

"On the supposed influence of offensive trades on mortality," Lancet 2 (26 July 1856): 95-97.

"Cholera and the water supply in the south districts of London in 1854," Journal of Public Health, and Sanitary Review 2 (October 1856): 239-57.

"On the adulteration of bread as a cause of rickets," Lancet 2 (4 July 1857): 4-5.

"On the adulteration of bread as a cause of rickets," Lancet 2 (3 October 1857): 351-52 [ltr. to ed., 24 September 1857].

Presentation: 17 October 1857. "Outbreak of cholera at West Ham"

"Cholera, and the water supply in the south districts of London," British Medical Journal 2 (17 October 1857): 864-65 [ltr. to ed., October 1857].

"On the outbreak of cholera at Abbey-Row, West Ham," Medical Times and Gazette 15 (24 October 1857): 417-19.

"On the origin of the recent outbreak of cholera at West Ham," British Medical Journal 2 (7 November 1857): 934-35 [ltr. to ed., 31 October 1857].

"Drainage and water supply in connexion with the public health," Medical Times and Gazette 16 (13 February 1858): 161-63. MTG 16 (20 February 1858): 188-91.

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