The third major cholera epidemic in the UK began in August 1853 and extended through November 1854. It is during this epidemic that John Snow deduced the mode of transmission, by water contaminated with feces.

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Pamela Gilbert, "On Cholera in Nineteenth-Century England"

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Aug 1853 to Nov 1854

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