Which year was NOT among the major cholera epidemics listed?

Which year was NOT among the major cholera epidemics listed?

• A. 1831-32
• B. 1870
• C. 1848
• D. 1854

Answer: (B)

Cholera’s big outbreaks in the 19th century happened in well-known waves called pandemics, so you’re being tested on which years align with those major waves. The years 1831–32, 1848, and 1854 sit right in the sequence of major outbreaks that students are often asked to recall: the first pandemic brought European cases around 1831–32, the third pandemic produced widespread outbreaks in 1848–49, and the 1854 London outbreak is famously connected to John Snow’s evidence about water sources. The year 1870, however, isn’t one of the commonly listed major epidemic years in this topic; by then the fourth pandemic was underway (roughly mid-1860s), but 1870 isn’t singled out as a major epidemic year in standard GCSE material. So 1870 is the year not among the major cholera epidemics listed.

Cholera’s big outbreaks in the 19th century happened in well-known waves called pandemics, so you’re being tested on which years align with those major waves. The years 1831–32, 1848, and 1854 sit right in the sequence of major outbreaks that students are often asked to recall: the first pandemic brought European cases around 1831–32, the third pandemic produced widespread outbreaks in 1848–49, and the 1854 London outbreak is famously connected to John Snow’s evidence about water sources. The year 1870, however, isn’t one of the commonly listed major epidemic years in this topic; by then the fourth pandemic was underway (roughly mid-1860s), but 1870 isn’t singled out as a major epidemic year in standard GCSE material. So 1870 is the year not among the major cholera epidemics listed.