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3rd September 1854 30p The Daily Guardian When a wave of Asiatic cholera first hit England in late 1831, it was thought to be spread by "miasma in the atmosphere." Now 23 years later, medical knowledge about the disease has barely changed, though one man, Dr John Snow, a surgeon [actually an anesthesiologist] and pioneer of the science of epidemiology, had recently published a report speculating that it is spread by contaminated water -- an idea with which neither the authorities nor the rest of the medical profession had much truck. Whenever cholera has broken out nothing whatsoever has done to contain it, and it rampages through the industrial cities, leaving tens of thousands dead in its wake. This year in 1854 the so-called 'London epidemic' hit areas like Southwark and Lambeth first. Soho suffered only a few, seemingly isolated, cases in late August. Then, on the night of the...

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