While areas with similar economic statuses with a different drinking well were completely untouched by cholera. He mapped out where people were gathering there water from and based on that, recorded deaths thus allowing for the connection between the two. Many of the men who worked in the sewers surrounded by the terrible smell would live very long, thus allowing to grasp that the disease was spread through drinking the contaminated water. There was also an instance where a sailor stayed in a room and developed cholera and died, then weeks later another man died of cholera in the same room. This lead many people into believing a space could be infected, but Snow was able to rule out this hypothesis as he realized many other people had been in the room without becoming sick. Snow also incorporated statistics by collecting mortality and morbidity rates, which allowed him to really track the disease. Snow conducted many chemistry tests on the drinking water, but at this time the advances of medical technology didn’t allow for complete diagnosis of
While areas with similar economic statuses with a different drinking well were completely untouched by cholera. He mapped out where people were gathering there water from and based on that, recorded deaths thus allowing for the connection between the two. Many of the men who worked in the sewers surrounded by the terrible smell would live very long, thus allowing to grasp that the disease was spread through drinking the contaminated water. There was also an instance where a sailor stayed in a room and developed cholera and died, then weeks later another man died of cholera in the same room. This lead many people into believing a space could be infected, but Snow was able to rule out this hypothesis as he realized many other people had been in the room without becoming sick. Snow also incorporated statistics by collecting mortality and morbidity rates, which allowed him to really track the disease. Snow conducted many chemistry tests on the drinking water, but at this time the advances of medical technology didn’t allow for complete diagnosis of