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Draw a conclusion Find a problem Make a question Think of a method Collect results Analyse the results Para 1 Para 2 Para 3 Para 4 Para 5 Para 6 Match them Find supporting evidence Para 7 What is the problem? The cholera was the most deadly disease of its day. Neither its cause, nor its cure was understood. What caused cholera? Para1: Find a problem Para 2 : Make a question Which theory to believe in? Cholera multiplied in the air without reason. A cloud of dangerous gas would float around until it found its victims. People absorbed it with their meals. Para4: A map of Broad Street Para 3: think of a method Broad Street Many deaths happened here. No death happened here. The water from the pump was to blame. Public house Para5: analyze the results: What happened to the pump water? The water was from the river which had been polluted by the dirty water from London. Para6: Find supporting evidence: What extra evidence did he find? A woman and her daughter who lived far away but drank the water also died. Para 7: draw a conclusion with certainty The polluted water carried the disease. Number these events in the order they happened. ___ John Snow began to test two theories. ___ An outbreak of cholera hit London in 1854. ___ John Snow marked the deaths on a map. ___ He announced that the water carried the disease. ___ John Snow investigated two streets where the outbreak was very severe. ___ King Cholera was defeated. ___ He found that most of the deaths were near a water pump. ___ He had the handle removed from the water pump. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Comprehending John Snow believed Idea 2 was right. How did he finally prove it? He used a map to gather information. He marked on the map the exact places where all the dead people had lived. And found that the dead people drank the polluted water from the pump. So he concluded that the dirty water carried the disease and that cholera was spread by germs and not in a cl