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John Snow

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Water Pump Handle

An English physician credited as a founder of modern epidemiology for his 1854 investigation of a cholera outbreak in London Soho district, in which he traced cases to a single contaminated water pump on Broad Street and had its handle removed, at a time when the prevailing miasma theory held that disease spread through bad air rather than contaminated water.

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Birth Year
1813 1
Death Year
1858 1
Nationality
English 1
Notable For
The 1854 Broad Street cholera investigation and map, a founding case study of epidemiology 2
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1. Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc.View the Source
2. UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, John Snow Site
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Department of EpidemiologyView the Source
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