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What data did John Snow collect from the Office of the Registrar General?

A list of every death and the address of everyone who had caught cholera

A list of every death and the address of everyone who had died of cholera

A list of every person and the address of everyone who had died of cholera

What did John Snow use to plot cholera deaths in London?

A histogram

A map

A graph

What did John Snow believe was the source of cholera?

The water companies

The water pump

The River Thames

In modern-day terms, what diagram did John Snow create to show the correlation between deaths and water supply?

Macaroni diagram

Venn diagram

Voroni diagram

Why had there not been any deaths at the workhouse?

They were not allowed to drink water at work

They boiled all their water before drinking it

They had their own private water supply

Who did John Snow have to convince to get the Broad Street pump shut down?

The local Council

The local Health Authority

The local Health Board

After listening to John Snow’s evidence, what did the Local Health Commission agree to do the next morning?

Remove the pump from Broad Street

Remove the handle from the pump

Remove tenants who lived near the pump

What was the name of the curate (assistant to vicars and priests) for Broad Street?

Henry Whitehead

Henry Whitbread

Henry Whitebeard

What committee were both John Snow and Henry Whitehead invited to join?

Cholera Epicentre Committee

Cholera Epidemic Committee

Cholera Outbreak Committee

Due to his position as a curate, what was Henry Whitehead able to do that John Snow could not?

Assemble, catalogue, manage and present artistic and cultural collections

Conduct a service, ministry or activity

Obtain the last pieces of data needed from those that had not fallen ill

Where did the Broad Street pump get its water from?

Ground water

Reservoir

River Thames

Henry Whitehead spoke to the mother of the first person to die from cholera. What had the mother put into the cesspit at the bottom of her house?

The child’s diaper (nappy)

The child’s dirty clothes

The child’s dummy

What did the examination of the cesspit and well reveal?

The cesspit was leaking into the ground water used by the Broad Street pump

The River Thames was leaking into the ground water used by the Broad Street pump

The sewer was leaking into the ground water used by the Broad Street pump

What did John Snow predict would happen in the future?

Great outbreaks of cholera would continue to happen

Great outbreaks of cholera would no longer happen

Great outbreaks of cholera would happen every six to seventeen years

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