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    Dr. John Snow traced a deadly 1854 cholera outbreak in London's Soho neighborhood to a contaminated public water pump on Broad Street. By interviewing local residents and creating a map of cholera cases centered around the pump, Snow determined people who drank water from the well were infected. His findings convinced local officials to remove the pump handle, stopping the spread of the disease. Snow is considered one of the founders of epidemiology for his use of evidence and mapping to identify the water pump as the source of the outbreak.

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    Dr. John Snow traced a deadly 1854 cholera outbreak in London's Soho neighborhood to a contaminated public water pump on Broad Street. By interviewing local residents and creating a map of cholera cases centered around the pump, Snow determined people who drank water from the well were infected. His findings convinced local officials to remove the pump handle, stopping the spread of the disease. Snow is considered one of the founders of epidemiology for his use of evidence and mapping to identify the water pump as the source of the outbreak.

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    Dr. John Snow traced a deadly 1854 cholera outbreak in London's Soho neighborhood to a contaminated public water pump on Broad Street. By interviewing local residents and creating a map of cholera cases centered around the pump, Snow determined people who drank water from the well were infected. His findings convinced local officials to remove the pump handle, stopping the spread of the disease. Snow is considered one of the founders of epidemiology for his use of evidence and mapping to identify the water pump as the source of the outbreak.

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    Dr.

    John Snow and the London Cholera outbreak

    John Snow (1813-1858) was a British physician.


    He is considered to be one of the fathers of epidemiology, because of his work in tracing the source of a cholera outbreak in Soho, England, in 1854.

    Cholera is caused by a bacterium (Vibrio

    cholerae).

    Symptoms include chronic diarrhoea, low blood pressure and dehydration. Infected patients can die within 3 hours if left untreated.

    In 1854, there was a cholera outbreak in London. It had devastating outcomes with over 500 fatalities.

    Nearly all families lost at least one member (regardless of socioeconomic class).

    By talking to local residents, Snow identified the source of the outbreak as the public water pump on Broad Street.

    Snow later used a spot map to illustrate how cases of cholera were centred around the pump.

    Snow concluded that all the people infected with cholera had drunk water collected from the Broad Street well. It was later discovered that a leaking cess pit containing sewage was only 3ft away from the well and was contaminating the water.

    Snow's studies of the pattern of the disease were convincing enough to persuade the local council to disable the well pump by removing its handle.
    This caused the number of cholera cases to decrease rapidly.

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