Date: 2020-09-26 11:28 am (UTC)
oursin: Sid the syphilis spirochaete from Giant Microbes (fluffy spirochaete)
From: [personal profile] oursin
People knew very well that you got STIs from person to person contagion!

And on cholera, the Broad St Pump etc, an awful lot of this was due to runaway urbanisation outrunning effective sewage disposal systems in the immediately post-industrial revolution era. And as for people drinking foul water, one of the problems with the Broad St Pump and Snow mapping cases, was that, the water tasted nice, people sent for it from other parts of London...
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