Today in 1854, the pump handle was removed from the water spigot in Soho, London, the site of a terrible cholera outbreak.
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Today in 1854, the pump handle was removed from the water spigot in Soho, London, the site of a terrible cholera outbreak. The sleuthing that led to this intervention really represents the birth of modern epidemiology. H/T Peter Tennant https://www.themarginalian.org/2011/08/26/the-ghost-map-steven-johnson/
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