Can't even imagine how many lives Doc Snow saved and the changes that were made because of the one man

Nicely done, Kevin! I am a spatial epidemiologist and this is such an important and most famous example of using "spatial thinking"/analysis to study disease. Just made my pilgrimage to the pub last year.

Some of the best boots-on-the-ground work I’ve ever read in this story. It’s always amazed me what things we take for granted now we’re such major problems for people living in towns in any period of history; sanitation, water supply, fire, all major problems and solved in some very ingenious ways.

Dr Snows legacy does live! When I did my first year of nursing one of the first things we covered naturally was infection control, hygiene and investigative nursing and his findings were the opening example to the module, particularly as at the time the NHS were doing a drive towards recognising and diagnosing sepsis. It's amazing how much of "old" medicine still has its place in modern practice, please do more of these Kevin, great job as ever! 🙂

Thank God for Doctor John Snow. He sure did due diligence and true scientific examination. Thank you.

With having studied John Snow's work in multiple epi and public health courses. This was probably the most approachable way I've seen it taught.

The sewer projects in the aftermath of the 1830 Vienna cholera epidemic and the 1850s Broad Street outbreak were some of the most important developments in public health in the modern era. Reliable sanitation infrastructure has since doubtless saved tens of millions of lives around the world. John Snow out here doing God's work.

I just wrote my C of Q to become a licensed plumber this week. Proper water treatment and waste treatment is integral to keeping people safe and eliminating disease. Thanks for another great video Kevin.

I bloody love your channel! (The arrowhead episode is what pulled me in). This is how you make history interesting! I'm recommending this channel to all my friends that enjoy history like this! 💜

I could listen to your stories all day what a phenomenal explanation

While viewing this I was immediately reminded of the conditions at the Elmira Civil War Prison Camp in Elmira NY. The Confederate prisoners wrote home saying that the water from the wells was very sweet, the best water they ever had. Sadly, the wells were dug very near the sinks (latrines). This, coupled with the stagnant Foster's Pond, that ran through the Camp contributed to the near 3,000 deaths during the camp's one year existence from 1864-1865. Another fascinating film about England's illustrious history. 🇬🇧

Thanks for the refresh. On this as a avid history buff since childhood I had been taught about this. But memories fade with age. But your telling of the subject’s are far more entertaining and memorable. I think channel 4 and bbc missed out on a great presenter in yourself. I know your a happy immigrant in Canada but you will always have a home and hearth Back in Blighty. Keep up the great work. I have just applied to my local archery club and asked about teaching disabled they are looking into my stupid illness to see if it’s possible. Thanks to your videos giving me the urge to shoot again. To build some fitness. I had a kids bow for my son and spent many hours in the garden with him growing up. Instead of actually gardening for my old man. Now he’s gone (covid) and I actually enjoy pottering around his garden. When my strength allows. I wish ide listened to him more for his knowledge on the garden. Like you he had a great deal of knowledge. It was him taking me around every castle in north Wales Lancashire and many in Yorkshire ancient burials, that gave me my love of history. DIY so that we could do any job in are own homes. But gardens well that skipped me. Your story’s put down on tape. Are like listening to my old man. But they are truly there to play back And so are extremely important. Thank you.

You were on to something, John Snow! Great story, thank you!

Wow Kevin,what a fantastic piece of detective work by Dr. Snow,very interesting,many thanks for doing this one Kevin!

I learned about him in school. I liked the fact that they even did a segment of him on the PBS broadcast on Victoria. Thank you for all of the different topics you share in your videos!!👏👏👏💯💯💯

Some of my wife's relatives might of been residents of said work house,you could barley say that Keven with a straight face.Your focus on this highly pivotal moment in the world's step forward in the health of humanity, is elevated by your presentation,my friend.

Been bingeing your videos all day. From the 100 years war to a Cholera infected water pump - you make learning about any subject fascinating! You & your wife's hard work deserve millions of views & subscribers.

Dr. Snow not only invented track and trace, but also made one of the first thematic maps. And now over to Joseph Bazalgette.

Amazing video Mr. Hicks. I'm sure the good Dr. is smiling down on you & saying "thank you, Kevin". 👍

that revelation was more terrifying than most horror movies i’ve seen. imagine that being a movie and seeing peoples reactions to learning they were drinking DILUTED CHOLERA SEWER WATER AND THAT WAS THE TASTE EVERYONE MISSED

Where we go, "up the mountains", so to speak, is to a place called Barclay, Bradford County, Pennsylvania. It used to be a booming coal-mining town about the same time as Dr. Snow. USED TO BE - and I can't stress that enough. There was a cholera outbreak, and the cemetery there has headstones that simply read "Baby Mitchell 1856." or "Baby O'Brien 1856". These kids didn't have enough time to be baptized before they were buried beside their parents.

Another well structured and informative video, thank you!

Loved this and your enthusiasm.

My neighborhood drunk says he never drinks water because it makes him rust , now I know why I never saw him sick

Wow, what a story! So interesting and vital even today. History is so important, the lessons we can learn and how it effects us today. Thank you for a brilliant channel. My favourite history channel.

Fantastic as always 👏

Awesome channel. Great work Kevin sir.

As always Kivin very informative, who new I had never heard of Dr Snow and the wonderful work he did thanks.

Excellent as usual

Another excellent and most educational video, knew this story in general but appreciate much the added details of it.

We did actually learn a bit about John Snow in GCSE history back in 2014, we did the broad street pump and the history of chloroform which Snow had an important role in, perhaps another video!

Remember learning about this for my History GCSE (Medicine through time), It did fascinate me at how rather rapidly in the span of 100-150 years the west expanded its medical knowledge, after medical regression and little advancements in medicine for hundreds of years

Remember learning about this in high school, just brought the whole thing back to me

Very informative. I learned something new today. Thank You

Just found this channel and already loved it, there’s not much content in KZfaq that holds me for 20+ mins engaged on a video, very interesting stuff and well presented thank you

Outstanding episode Kevin!

Your amazing! I always look forward to your presentations, you play the character roles so well. Thanks again.

I always look forward to your videos!

Love your videos, always a pleasure!! ❤️ Thank you! Many blessings from Olympia WA, USA!

Beautiful job Kevin!

Just stumbled across you yesterday and I'm officially all caught up & subscribed!

Hmm, maybe that's why hose water was so delicious when I was a kid? I like when you dress up AND when you them in character. Thanks Brother.

Nice job you really go around the briar 😀bush and cover all aspects of history thank you.😃

Brilliant video as always 👏

Kevin, that was a super video about Dr John Snow, I have seen the plaque in North Street, York where he was born. He was obviously a very clever and gifted Dr, he was also a vegetarian, later to become a vegan and was also teetotal. The way he worked out the source of the cholera outbreak in Broad Street, London was very clever. He unfortunately died young, only 45. Suffered a stroke and died about a week later, it was thought his experimentation of gases for anesthetics was a contributor factor. Now named Broadwick Street, the John Snow pub is still there, I think also the water pump and hosts an annual meeting in his memory. So it should, his contribution to medical science was ground breaking and deserves a more prominent place in history 👍👍🇬🇧

Thank you

Very interesting subject, as always fascinating material very well presented. Reminds us how harsh life was in early London. Very well done Kevin.

Another great video Kevin love the side burns 👍

Thank you for my continuing education. Interesting to me even in central NY. Thanx

Very interesting and liked the authentic presentation.👍

Very well presented. A hero that should be praised more. Thank you

Brilliantly narrated story

Thank you!

Greetings once again from nova Scotia, thank you brother, I really enjoyed this video. I have heard other stories about this subject, and I very much enjoyed your telling. Thank you once again, be well. Arthur

Great video keep them coming kevin 👍

Absolutely enjoyed this informative video.Well done.

Ripper Street TV show featured in an episode called The King Came Calling where a suspected outbreak of cholera came from a public hand pump but in the end it was ergot poisoning from a fungus.

Cholera epidemics plagued London decades before and after John Snow discovered contamination at the Broad St. pump. Large areas of south London were served by two water companies, Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company, and the Lambeth Waterworks Company. Both companies drew water from the River Thames and downstream of a large sewage discharge. In some neighborhoods both company's pipes were connected and many people got sick with cholera. But in 1852 the Lambeth Company moved its water intake up river and away from the sewage, and few people drinking Lambeth water got sick. John Snow wrote about it in "The Grand Experiment". In his book, On the Mode of Communication of Cholera (1855). Vibrio cholerae was discoverd in 1854 but wasn't fully studied until the 1880s. It also spread to the USA and killed many migrants on The Oregon Trail.

This is a brilliant channel! Good story!

That was really interesting mate. Thanks.

Another great history story I have learnt so much from your hard work thank you

Fantastic.

Amazing content, just when I think I cannot possibly enjoy this channel more than I already am there comes the next and even more entertaining piece

Well done. Keep 'em comming, please.....

Nice chops!

Can't believe I missed this 😫 look forward to anything from Kevin and it's all so interesting. Anyway grateful for watching it. Thanks Kevin and your lovely wife for the educational clips you put out.

I freakin love the costumes in every video! Great historical videos. 😁

Very interesting, thankyou 👋👋👋

Thanks!

Wow wow wow wow wow!!! Super interesting, love your channel, so informative! You always add that little twist of humour mixed with just a touch of sarcasm at times. I really enjoy watching your work and am always learning something new. Thankyou very much for your hard work

Marvelous, as always. Thank you. Robert Henry, M.D.

Hello Kevin! Once again, great story, looking smart! 👍😁

Ooooh yes, I first remember reading about this one in the book The Ghost Map! Fascinating stuff.

This channel is incredible! I learn something new every single video I watch from a man who obviously has done more than his fair share of research.

Very interesting yarn. A drinking water source three feet from a cesspit, eh? So much that we have had to learn...the hard way. Thanks for this clip.

Nice one.

Kev love your format aa it's not all about battles and warfare👍👍👍

I LOVE the medical history Kevin. Thank you so much. You rock.

Thanks for covering the accomplishments of this great man! His legacy will live on for many years to come! This video is amazing! You might even say it’s the sh… 😆😄Great work Kevin and team!

Thanks

A great episode of history. I believe it was highlighted in the original Connections show.

Loving the channel and your enthusiasm for each topic. I love that John Snow pushed back against unscientific/anecdotal medicine and used controlled scientific analysis to trace the origin of the outbreak. He argued it with quantitative and qualitative data. Even the exceptions (e.g. the brewery, the woman out of the area that favored the Broadstreet Pump water) ended up proving the rule that the water was contaminated.

he did something simple yet longstanding, hard to fathom the sheer numbers that lived because of his theory. he’s someone who deserves to be talked about alongside Salk and Pasteur as saviors of mankind i speak of this as i live several hundred meters from one of the biggest sewage lines in New England which is also not far from one of the largest water mains showing that he had an impact the world over!

What a brilliantly detailed explanation of a horrible historical event! A wonderful episode! Please many more!

Interesting and informative. Also well presented. Very much enjoy the period costumes too.

Nooooo, I love it when Kevin says film instead of video! 😂😂

Well done. Did you know that the idea that disease was caused by "minute little creatures invisible to the eye" was introduced by the Roman scholar Marcus Varro (head of Roman imperial Library) more than 2,000 years ago?

Have read about this. Quite remarkable storey. Read a book that took this Dr Snow's work and tracing methods to outline his success in pinpointing the Broad Street well as the source of the outbreak.

Found this intriguing, myself in college in 1970’s took great amount of biology and microbiology, Love the history. 🙋‍♂️🐈🐈

Kinda enjoyed your video LOL and I gave it a Thumbs Up

"They liked the taste of the water." Cholera. What a good reason not to drink it. Thank Heaven the authorities listened to Dr. Snow (England's first bulldog because he refused to give up). May GOD bless

Snow's maps are often used in introduction to geographic mapping courses to promote interest in mapping analysis

Yep. Fascinating. The sad irony is that at the same time, hundreds of British soldiers, and their French allies were dying of cholera, Black Fever, etc in Varna, moderrn Bulgaria- before they even got to the Crimea. There are reports of some dying within hours, & one unfortunate, who arrived on the Tuesday, fell sick on the Wednesday, and was buried on the Thursday. General Orders show they had a rough understanding that water or food was involved, urging the men not eat fruit or vegetables, but they weren`t apparently exactly sure how.

I've always said water is dangerous . That's why I stick with beer .🍺🍺🍺 "Better safe , then sober"... that's my motto . Fascinating , a great video . Thank you .

School teachers, pay attention! THIS is how it's done. We love this channel, Mr. Hicks.

Always love your videos Kevin. Presented so well. One trivial question. Is the wall behind you real stone?

Just foudn this channel, and I love it! thank you

What a great man!

Your stories about London in the 1800s are horrific. It must have been such a bad place to live. Thanks for sharing. 💜

Divination of a Cesspit: Sorry I always thought that was Parliament House.