Commentary: John Sutherland’s Epidemiology of Constitutions

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1 October 2002

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Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in International Journal of Epidemiology

Vol. 31 (5) , 915-919
https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/31.5.915

Abstract

To a modern epidemiologist, these extracts from John Sutherland’s Report to the General Board of Health on the Epidemic of Cholera of 1848 and 1849 will likely seem both familiar and strange.¹ Sutherland plots and counts cases; he is interested in cholera in time and space, searches for empirical generalizations (‘fixed laws’), and will suggest effective measures to respond to the epidemic. In particular, his discussion in section three of the effects of ‘unwholesome water’ may seem intriguing in light of John Snow’s concurrent and rightly celebrated demonstrations of the waterborne character of cholera.

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