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Pump Identification
- When
- 1854
- Where
- Broad Street Pump
Snow identified the Broad Street pump as the source of infection through interviews with residents and mapping of death patterns.
Snow and Whitehead interviewed residents, finding that deaths clustered near the pump. Snow noted that workers at the nearby brewery did not contract cholera, an anomaly supporting the hypothesis that contaminated water was the cause.
Sources
- 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-22
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