Table of Contents
Acknowledgements 7
Preface 8
Introduction 9
Chapter 1 An Ancient Disease: The history and epidemiology of cholera 15
Chapter 2 Brandy is the Cure: The 1831-2 cholera outbreak 31
Chapter 3 The Wretched State of the Poor: The influence of politics and philosophy on the living and sanitary conditions of the poor 60
Chapter 4 Cholera and Tooting's Pauper Paradise: Workhouse conditions and how cholera devastated a children's institution 79
Chapter 5 Births, Marriages and Deaths: The General Register Office and the work of William Farr 99
Chapter 6 The Graveyards Overflow: The effect of population growth and cholera on traditional burial practices 113
Chapter 7 Dr John Snow and the Broad Street Pump: The emerging theory that cholera is a waterborne disease and the modern myth of Dr John Snow 129
Chapter 8 The Stink of Cholera: The improvement of London's sewage system and Sir Joseph Bazalgette 162
Chapter 9 Cholera Returns: The 1866 East End cholera outbreak and the Princess Alice disaster 173
Chapter 10 A Modern Disease: Genetics, vaccines and new theories 191
Notes 204
Bibliography 229
Index
