Was It in the Air? The Killers Too Small to See

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Edwin ChadwickHistorical profile·​#5768·​1842·​AI-assisted

Diseases like cholera and fevers come from miasma: bad air given off by rotting filth, sewage, and swamps. Clean away the filth and its smell, and the disease goes with it.

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John SnowHistorical profile·​#5774·​September 8, 1854·​Criticism·​AI-assisted

The Broad Street outbreak’s deaths cluster around one pump, and those spared drank other water: the workhouse its own well, the brewery’s men their beer. Bad air would have spared no one in the same streets.

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