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  What if John Snow Had Been a Local Health Officer? David Bishai and Jessica Bishai Wiliam Farr -General Board of Health-                                                                                                                                Friday Sep 1, 1854  Dear _ John,                                                                                                                                                                    I am writing to remind you of our upcoming engagement to conduct a site visit and inspect your inventory of anti-syphilitics.  I would thank you to remember that the continued funding on the syphilis grant is contingent on your regular reporting of the number of syphilis cases your program treats.  Our site inspectors will be there promptly at noon on Monday. Yours respectfully, William P.S. I thank you for your correspondence about the supposed “outbreak” of cholera on Broad Street yesterday. As you report no more than  70 cases (a trivial sum in