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Close ✕The Broad Street pump, Soho
The public water pump on Broad Street in Soho, London — the street is now Broadwick Street — at the centre of the cholera outbreak of late August and September 1854, in which several…
51.5, -0.1 · approximate · outbreak August–September 1854; commemorative marker present today
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- is assesses of John Snow — Snow mapped the 1854 Soho deaths against the pumps serving each household and identified this pump as the common source.
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