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The surgeon John Snow also began investigating the matter when a deadly outbreak occurred near his house in Soho, London, in 1854. Snow started plotting cases on a map, and that was when he noticed that a majority of people who fell ill were receiving their water from a pump on the southwest corner of the intersection of Broad (now Broadwick) Street and Cambridge (now Lexington) Street.
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
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