WHITEHEAD (H). RAWNSLEY (H.D), Canon.: Henry Whitehead 1825-1896. A Memorial Sketch. 'THE CHOLERA CLERIC' , James Maclehose, Glasgow, 1898

8vo., First Edition, with a fine portrait frontispiece, some light age-spotting, wanting front free endpaper; original burgundy cloth, gilt back, uncut, corners lightly turned else a very good, clean copy. With a presentation bookplate on front paste-down (mildly offset to half-title). Whitehead was curate at St. Luke's in London's Soho during the terrible cholera outbreak of 1854. He worked with John Snow to define the source of the epidemic and the two men eventually traced the outbreak to a faulty cesspool. The methods adopted, combining detailed demographic analysis with scientific observation, are considered an important landmark in the development of epidemiology. Very scarce. (Book ref. 19737)  £54.00

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