![]() ![]() ![]() Back in Soho, he wonders why no inhabitants of a particular workhouse succumbed a conversation with the director reveals the workhouse water was piped from another source. Learning of one cholera victim far from Soho, Snow hustles to her house and finds her sons brought her a jar of Broad Street water weekly, because she liked the taste. ![]() He quickly saw that most clustered around a particular well on Broad Street in Soho. His genius lay in the original way he tested his idea: not by examining patients but by poring over the street addresses of those who had died. Snow, an anesthetist who presided over one of Queen Victoria's many labors, was sure it was the water, not the air, that was killing his neighbors. But the London epidemic is special because it changed the course of history, thanks to John Snow. By its end, 700 people had died in a city of more than 2 million. London had seen worse than the one that hit in August 1854, though it was certainly bad enough. ![]()
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