The 10th annual John Snow Society Pumphandle lecture, given by Dr David Salisbury, focused on the public’s concern for vaccine safety; where this fear comes from and how the Department of Health tackles these problems. Dr David Salisbury is a Principal Medical Officer of the Communicable Disease Branch, the Department of Health, London, where he …
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Professor David Bradley gave the ninth in the series of Pumphandle lectures of the John Snow Society on 5 September 2001 at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). The subject of the lecture was particularly appropriate to the memory of Dr John Snow and to the ‘pumphandle’ theme celebrating interventions and innovations …
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The Influenza story has parallels with the search for the origin of many other infections. Cholera, still present in Europe at the turn of the twentieth century, was the subject of huge debate about its origins. Dr John Snow’s methodical approach in the 1850s solved the mystery of its transmission, laying the way open for …
The following paper from Professor Pennington is based on a lecture he gave for the John Snow Society at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in September 1997.The following paper from Professor Pennington is based on a lecture he gave for the John Snow Society at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical …
The Manson Lecture Theatre at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) was crowded on Wednesday 8th September 1995, with Society members and other interested parties, keen to hear Dr Sandy Cairncross of the LSHTM deliver the third annual Pumphandle Lecture, entitled “Turning the Worm”, on the Guinea Worm eradication programme.The Manson Lecture …
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Professor Paul Fine, the Pumphandle President, welcomed members and non-members alike to an overflowing Manson theatre at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on Thursday 8th September 1994 to commemorate the 140th anniversary of John Snow’s removal of the pump handle. He introduced the speaker, Dr Spence Galbraith, who founded the Epidemiological Research …
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There was an expectant buzz of excitement around the crowded Manson Lecture Theatre at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on Wednesday 8th September 1993. On the bench in front of the audience stood the society’s ceremonial cast iron water pump. There was standing room only as Professor Paul Fine, the Inaugural President, …
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