Typhoid
(aka Enteric Fever)
Diseases
[John Snow first discovered the cause when he linked it to
a well in Broad Street, Soho, London 1854.
John Snow beat William Budd to the water theory of transmission of cholera
by only 10 days. However, although Budd's thesis was based on more thorough
surveys of rural outbreaks, he made the mistake of proposing a fungal cause.
In 1849, John Snow published the first edition of his best-known work
On the mode of communication of cholera. It cost him £200 to produce but his
income was only £3.12s. Journals dismissed
Snow's book. "There is, in our view, an entire failure of proof that the
occurrence of any one case could be clearly and unambiguously assigned to
water". The reviewer later concludes, "Notwithstanding our opinion that Dr
Snow has failed in proving that cholera is communicated in the mode in which he
supposes it to be, he deserves the thanks of the profession for endeavouring to
solve the mystery. It is only by close analysis of facts and the publication of
new views, that we can hope to arrive at the truth". (London Medical
Gazette, 1849). John Snow's views were still not
accepted in Germany at the time of the Gelsenkirche Typhoid Epidemic, in 1901!
It was common at the time to have a cesspit under most
homes. Most families tried to have their raw sewage collected and dumped in the
Thames to prevent their cesspit from filling faster than the sewage could
decompose into the soil. After the cholera
epidemic had subsided, government officials replaced the Broad Street Handle
Pump. They had responded only to the urgent threat posed to the population, and
afterwards they rejected Snow's theory. To accept his proposal would be
indirectly accepting the oral-fecal method transmission of disease, which was
too unpleasant for most of the public. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Snow_(physician).]
See: Typhus
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