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Description of  Investigating Cholera in Broad Street: A History in Documents: (From the Broadview Sources Series)

This book features various accounts of a cholera outbreak in West London that killed over 500 people in ten days during the late summer of 1854. What had caused the outbreak? Local authorities of the time were flummoxed about the mode by which the disease had spread. What has become known as the Broad Street pump episode is one of the most significant early examples of a team-oriented investigation into the causes of an epidemica hallmark of epidemiology and public health today. Read more