1854: Physician John Snow convinces a London local council to remove the handle from a pump in Soho. A deadly cholera epidemic in the neighborhood comes to an end immediately, though perhaps ...

John Snow, Father of ... Realizing that a common factor among the victims was use of a particular communal water pump, Snow removed the pump handle -- and the outbreak subsided.

The well's pump handle was removed and the cholera outbreak ended. This is where most textbooks end. But there's a second part to the story—Snow's Grand Experiment.

Snow may be best remembered for tracing a 1854 cholera outbreak to a well on Broad St. in London—and then having the pump handle removed, so the locals couldn't draw water there anymore; even ...

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. It ...

Snow had another idea. He persuaded civic officials to remove the handle from the Broad Street pump , a water source for the neighboring businesses and residents. And fairly quickly, the cholera ...

John Snow, the father of modern epidemiology! On September 7, 1854, Dr. John Snow took his research to the officials, who reluctantly agreed to his suggestion and took the handle off a pump.

Dr John Snow is one of the most important people who ever lived in Soho. In 1854, he mapped the homes of all the locals who had succumbed to cholera. The data clustered around a pump on Broadwick ...

Phil Edwards was a senior producer for the Vox video team. It all starts with a pump. In this episode of Vox Almanac, Vox’s Phil Edwards explores the story behind Dr. John Snow’s famous map of ...

If you’re schlepping around Soho and want to welcome back the Jon Snow pump, you can find it outside the John Snow Pub on Broadwick Street. Spending the day in W1? Here's our guide to Soho.