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-Cholera was a terribledisease that reularly ravaged London and other cities during the 19th century
-One of the worst outbreaks ever took place in Broad Street in London in 1854
-John Snow suspected that the disease was spread by water taken from a popular street pump
-Prince Albert died of typhoid
-The relationship between dirty air and disease was difficult to establish
4 questions
-Who is prince albert?
- How did the pump become so durty that it made people become infected with some disease ?
- Who came up with the word swong?
-What does Holmes have to do with medicine?
3 vocabulary
brewery-a building or establishment for brewing beer or other malt liquors, esp. the building where the brewing is done.
prominent-standing out so as to be seen easily; conspicuous; particularly noticeable
evocative-tending to evoke
2 literary terms
'public health problems are far from solved ' aliteration
'Smoking, particularly cigarette smoking....' repitition
1 overview sentence
This chapter is basically about how alot of people got a disease from drinking polluted water