In 1854, a cholera epidemic swept through the London neighborhood of Soho. In the course of about three weeks, over 600 people died. This incident was, tragically, not unusual in London or the ...

1854: Physician John Snow convinces a London local council to remove the handle from a pump in Soho. A deadly cholera epidemic in the neighborhood comes to an end immediately, though perhaps ...

Snow compiled data on the two sets of London households and found that during an 1854 epidemic there were 315 deaths from cholera per 10,000 homes among those supplied by Southwark-Vauxhall but ...

London, circa 1854. A deadly cholera outbreak has caught the neighborhood of Soho in its teeth. The young, the old, the hale, the weak—this is an indiscriminate disease, and it’s moving fast.

As the summer of 1854 wound down, a cholera outbreak swept through a single neighborhood in London: Soho, Snow’s own backyard.

In 1854, London was gripped by an outbreak of cholera. In ... that in 1854 Dr John Snow tracked down as the drinking water source of a cholera outbreak that killed ... in the Soho area of ...

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In 1854, once John Snow had identified the water pump at 40 Broad Street as the source of the cholera outbreak, he had the handle removed. No one in Soho could access the pump.

In 1854, English physician John Snow figured out that water carried a cholera outbreak in London's Soho by pinpointing the locations affected. Even then, he could not isolate the microbe under a ...