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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Tuesday, September 5: All Smell Is Disease.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Thomas Latta come up with a water cure for cholera?
(a) 1784.
(b) 1798.
(c) 1832.
(d) 1841.

2. Where was St. Luke's Church located in Eyes Sunk, Lips Dark Blue?
(a) Regent Street.
(b) Berwick Street.
(c) Hanover Street.
(d) Broad Street.

3. What did the Board of Health have put on the streets in All Smell is Disease?
(a) Salt.
(b) Water and bleach.
(c) Chloride of lime.
(d) Bleach.

4. In The Night-Soil Men, how many corpses were packed into a burial ground in Islington?
(a) 55,000.
(b) 80,000.
(c) 15,000.
(d) 30,000.

5. By September 5, how many residents of the Golden Square neighborhood died in the last 5 days?
(a) More than 500.
(b) 630.
(c) 450.
(d) About 300.

Short Answer Questions

1. In All Smell is Disease, how did John Snow spend September 5?

2. In All Smell is Disease, according to Joseph Bazalgette, how many cesspools were abolished in about six years?

3. During the epidemics of the late 1840s and 1850s, how many Londoners would typically die of cholera in a matter of weeks?

4. In 1851 in the subdistrict of Berwick Street, how many people were there per acre of land?

5. When was The Long Epidemiological Society founded?

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