In 1854, cholera struck again. In London, Dr John Snow studied the spread of cholera in the Broad Street area. He noticed that the victims had all drunk water from the pump in the street.

John Snow is often called the founder of epidemiology, the study of health in populations. He is best known for his work on tracking the spread of cholera during an epidemic in London in 1854.

the pub is instead named after a local doctor, who was the first to find evidence that cholera spreads through tainted water. John Snow started mapping incidences of the disease in Soho ...

How We Got to Now had many roots. The first episode, Clean, includes the story of London doctor John Snow deciphering the waterborne nature of cholera, about which I had written an entire book ...