Water quiz for KS3: John Snow and water contamination #3
 
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What data did John Snow collect from the Office of the Registrar General?
A list of every death and the address of everyone who had caught cholera
A list of every death and the address of everyone who had died of cholera
A list of every person and the address of everyone who had died of cholera
What did John Snow use to plot cholera deaths in London?
A histogram
A map
A graph
What did John Snow believe was the source of cholera?
The water companies
The water pump
The River Thames
In modern-day terms, what diagram did John Snow create to show the correlation between deaths and water supply?
Macaroni diagram
Venn diagram
Voroni diagram
Why had there not been any deaths at the workhouse?
They were not allowed to drink water at work
They boiled all their water before drinking it
They had their own private water supply
Who did John Snow have to convince to get the Broad Street pump shut down?
The local Council
The local Health Authority
The local Health Board
After listening to John Snow’s evidence, what did the Local Health Commission agree to do the next morning?
Remove the pump from Broad Street
Remove the handle from the pump
Remove tenants who lived near the pump
What was the name of the curate (assistant to vicars and priests) for Broad Street?
Henry Whitehead
Henry Whitbread
Henry Whitebeard
What committee were both John Snow and Henry Whitehead invited to join?
Cholera Epicentre Committee
Cholera Epidemic Committee
Cholera Outbreak Committee
Due to his position as a curate, what was Henry Whitehead able to do that John Snow could not?
Assemble, catalogue, manage and present artistic and cultural collections
Conduct a service, ministry or activity
Obtain the last pieces of data needed from those that had not fallen ill
Where did the Broad Street pump get its water from?
Ground water
Reservoir
River Thames
Henry Whitehead spoke to the mother of the first person to die from cholera. What had the mother put into the cesspit at the bottom of her house?
The child’s diaper (nappy)
The child’s dirty clothes
The child’s dummy
What did the examination of the cesspit and well reveal?
The cesspit was leaking into the ground water used by the Broad Street pump
The River Thames was leaking into the ground water used by the Broad Street pump
The sewer was leaking into the ground water used by the Broad Street pump
What did John Snow predict would happen in the future?
Great outbreaks of cholera would continue to happen
Great outbreaks of cholera would no longer happen
Great outbreaks of cholera would happen every six to seventeen years
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