John Snow Takes the Handle off the Broad Street Pump
Broadwick Street, Soho, London W1F, United Kingdom
CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCEThe parish's Board of Guardians acted on Snow's request and the pump handle was removed on 8 September 1854, the date the contemporary record carries.[1]
With more than 500 dead in ten days around Golden Square, John Snow persuaded the parish to remove the handle from the Broad Street water pump. He had mapped the deaths house by house and found them clustered on one well - the argument that cholera travelled in water, not air.
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