John Snow is often called the founder ... He persuaded the local council to remove the handle of the pump to stop others from catching the disease. Cholera cases had begun to fall by then, but ...

For 14 weeks in the late summer of 1853, London suffered one of its worst cholera outbreaks. The leading voices in medicine believed the disease emanated from the foul gasses of London’s polluted ...

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. He persuaded local officials to stop ...

In 1848, there was a second outbreak of cholera in London. Dr John Snow ... back to a contaminated water pump in Broad Street in the Soho area of London. Snow removed the handle of the pump ...

who was the first to find evidence that cholera spreads through tainted water. John Snow started mapping incidences of the disease in Soho, and noticed clusters around the Broad Street water pump.