London 1848

The petition, meanwhile, which was boasted to have over 5,, signatures, proved to contain just under 2 million. Pages of them were in identical handwriting and many of them were forged or facetious, including those of the Queen and the Iron Duke, who appeared to have endorsed the petition no fewer than seventeen times, along with Mr Punch and names like Pugnose and No Cheese.

Chartism was effectively dead, and it was to be many years before its demands became part of the accepted democratic system in Britain. Failed Chartist Demonstration in London. Britain Political Social. Popular articles. The Original Anti-Vaxxers. The Long Legacy of a Short Life. From 4 p. Midnight to 4 a. From the time of 4 a. These recorded cases showed that most of the attacks and deaths occurred between the times of midnight to 8 in the morning.

Age also proved to be a factor on the frequency of attacks and deaths. Nearly double the amount of cases between the ages of 10 and 20, there were recorded cases with of them dying. The bulk of the cases occurred between the ages of 20 and 30 with cases and 30 to 40 with cases.

Out of the cases, individuals died and of the cases died. There were also a lot of recorded cases between the ages of 40 to 50 with cases and deaths. The number of cases and deaths dropped as age goes up with only cases and 77 deaths for individuals aged 50 to 60, 93 cases and 65 deaths for 60 to 70, and 21 cases and 14 deaths for 70 to Throughout the epidemic there were different theories of causes of the cholera outbreak, but there was one cause that was unanimous and that was the unsanitary water-supply.

Most of the citizens obtained water from wells, and the contents of sewers and drainage from graveyards had leaked into the water supply.

Many people did not notice that the water was necessarily dangerous and unsanitary at first, except the occasional bad smell or muddiness.

After some time, residents who used well water started to complain about the supply. John Snow was thoroughly convinced that the spread of cholera was through contaminated and unsanitary water.

He had gathered a lot of evidence and in during the second year of the outbreak he published a pamphlet titled On the Mode of Communication of Cholera that contained the necessary information to support his theory. Thomas, author of a well-known book on the Lambeth cholera epidemic of In addition to the Lambeth scourge, the plaque mentions the work of Dr.

The New Plaque. Where the New Plaque would have been in map of London. It was at 26 Lower Fore Street that the first cholera case in the Lambeth area, year old John Murphy, showed symptoms on September 30, before dying the next day see above plaque for details. The Third London Cholera Case of While John Murphy is now remembered in the new plaque for his cholera death in the Lambeth neighborhood, the cholera epidemic actually started elsewhere in London.

Murphy was the third cholera case in London during the epidemic. As John Snow described in his book , "The first case of decided Asiatic cholera in London, in the autumn of , was that of a seaman named John Harnold, who had newly arrived by the Elbe steamer from Hamburgh [Germany], where the disease was prevailing. He left the vessel, and went to live at No. He was seized with cholera on the 22nd of September, and died in a few hours. Snow went on to state, "Dr.