after the map by DR JOHN SNOW
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DEATHS
SOHO · LONDON
1854
Cholera. Five hundred dead in ten days.
Everyone blamed the air.
A doctor, John Snow, blamed the water.
The deaths drew a ring around one water pump.
8 SEPTEMBER 1854
They took the handle off the pump.
The outbreak ended.
Modern epidemiology began with a map.
BROAD STREET · SOHO · 1854