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Hello and welcome to Witness History on the BBC World Service with me Claire Bowes.

As scientists struggle with the COVID-19 pandemic, I'm taking you back to the 19th century when doctors were mystified

by cholera, a disease that was killing millions around the world.

It was an English doctor called John Snow, who established that cholera was spread through

contaminated water and not, as many Victorians believed, through foul smelling air.

London in the 1850s was booming. At the centre of Queen Victoria's vast empire,

it was a hub for international trade,

and its population was expanding rapidly. Housing was overcrowded and squalid.

It is amongst the poor. Where the whole family live, sleep, cook, eat and wash in a single room that cholera has been

found to spread when once introduced.

And still more in those places in which several families were crowded into a single room.

Dr John Snow, like many others at the time, was horrified by the living conditions of many Londoners.

But he noticed something important during the

cholera outbreaks of the 1840s and 50s. When on the other hand cholera is

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