A London physician by the name of John Snow mapped out the spread of a cholera outbreak in the city 150 years ago. ... Snow removed the pump handle -- and the outbreak subsided.

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 ...

By mapping the number and locations of cholera cases, John Snow revealed and understood the pattern at once. Cholera cases soared near the Broad Street water pump, so water must have been the culprit.

📜 England's Broad Street Pump - Part 1 - Extra History Thanks to his mother's support, John Snow rose from humble beginnings as a coal miner's son and apprenticed to a doctor in Newcastle. As a ...

Game of Thrones ' Jon Snow may know nothing, but the real-life John Snow knew a heck of a lot. In fact, the 19th ... A restored version of the Broad Street pump Matt Brown/Flickr.

John Snow is often called the founder of epidemiology, the study of health in populations. ... This led him to conclude that a water pump on Broad Street was the source of the contagion.

In this episode of Vox Almanac, Vox’s Phil Edwards explores the story behind Dr. John Snow’s famous map of the Broad Street pump. In 1854, news spread about a mysterious new cholera outbreak ...

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 ...

If you’re schlepping around Soho and want to welcome back the Jon Snow pump, you can find it outside the John Snow Pub on Broadwick Street. Spending the day in W1? Here's our guide to Soho.

Snow may be best remembered for tracing a 1854 cholera outbreak to a well on Broad St. in London—and then having the pump handle removed, so the locals couldn't draw water there anymore; even ...