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Am J Epidemiol 2004; 159:422.
Copyright © 2004 by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RE: ON JOHN SNOW’S UNQUESTIONED LONG DIVISION

Fernando M. Carvalho1, Fabiana Lima1 and David Kriebel2

1 Preventive Medicine Department, Federal University of Bahia, Av. Reitor Miguel Calmon, s/n Vale do Canela, Salvador, Bahia, Brasil CEP 40.420-060
2 Department of Work Environment, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA 01854

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Recently, during an epidemiology lecture for undergraduates, one student noticed that there’s a mistake in John Snow’s calculation of the death rate of cholera for the "rest of London" in the 1854 epidemic described in On the Mode of Communication of Cholera (1). . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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