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How did the Cholera outbreak happen?
3. It all began with a baby girl in Broad Street, she had been infected fromelsewhere. Her mother dropped the girl's waste which was full of cholerabacteria into the cesspool.
1. I was reading that there was a Cholera outbreak in London. How did that happen?
2. Oh, son, that was long ago. It happened on31 august 1854.
4. Thecesspool was leaking, so the bacteria made its way into the well, under theBroad Street pump
How did Doctor John Snow find the source of the outbreak?
4. He alsofound that even these people had used the Broad Street pump. Some wherechildren who passed it on their way to school.
1. Who discovered the source of the outbreak, and how?
2. A popular doctor and detective called Dr. John Snow discovered the outbreak. He believedthat the cholera spread by water not by air, so he started to investigate.
3. He markedthe map of the Soho area with all households people who died. Then, he markedthe water pumps on the map. He noticed a cluster of deaths around a pump inBroad Street, but many deaths were closer to other pumps.
How was it stopped?
1. How was the outbreak stopped?
4. Dad Mom, thanks so much for this wonderfull information, I'll share it with my friends.
2. Well,Dr. Snow succeeded to convince the council that the water from the Broad Streetpump was the source of the cholera. So, simply the pump handle was removed.
3. Also,by then, the outbreak was already dying away.

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