Student's name: ____________________________________________________________________

Date: ________________________

TITLE

(You should establish a title regarding what you have read)

BACKGROUND

1. Describe the health conditions in England in the XIX century.

2. Describe the symptoms of the cholera disease.

3. Describe the conditions of the Thames river.

4. Describe the principles of the Miasmatic theory.

5. Describe the principles of the Contagion theory.

OBSERVATION

They were two theories explaining the origin og the cholera epidemic. Discuss briefly each of them.
What were the differences between them?

HYPOTHESIS

Nule Hypothesis (State an affirmative sentence about how the disease is transmitted considering
the contagion disease).

Alternative Hypothesis (State an affirmative sentence about how the disease is transmitted
considering the miasmatic theory).

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 EXPERIMENT

Environmental Conditions in 1853

Southwarck and Vauxhall Company Lamberth Company

(inlet remained in London section of river) (had moved inlet to cleaner upriver location)

Water characteristics: These people were Water characteristics: These people were
drinking water from this source, describe the drinking water from this source, describe the
conditions. conditions.

Note. The people had already drunk water from these water sources. So the experiment was already
established. Jhon Snow only registered the number of deaths and and the water source for each case.

DATA ANALYSIS

1. For each company, calculate the number of deaths per 10, 000 households.
Ta ble 1: Cholera deaths in 1854 in Snow’s Grand Experiment
Water company Number of households Cholera deaths Deaths per 10, 000
households
40, 046 1,263 __________
Southwarck and
Vauxhall Company
(inlet remained in London section
of river)

26,107 98 __________
Lamberth Company
(had moved inlet to cleaner
upriver location)
2. Create a bar chart, including the water company and the number of deaths per 10, 000 households.

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Number of deaths per 10,000 households

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0.7
0.6
0.5
0.4
0.3
0.2
0.1
0
Southwarck and Vauxhall Company Lamberth Company
Water Company

CONCLUSIONS

1. Considering the obtained results Nule hypothesis is accepted or rejected.

2. State your conclusions widely, considering the evidence and data results (the water source, water
conditions, number of deaths).