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The childs mother washed the babys diapers in water which she then dumped into a leaky cesspool just three feet from the broad street pump, touching off what snow called the most terrible outbreak of cholera which ever occurred in this kingdom. The strange case of the broad street pump describes the waves of cholera that spread across the world from 1817 to 1866, what was done to treat it, and what was discovered about it. Pdf new developments in the epidemiology of cancer. Elsevier is a leading publisher of health science books and journals, helping to advance medicine by delivering superior education, reference information and decision support tools to doctors, nurses, health practitioners and students. Request pdf on nov 1, 2002, george davey smith and others published commentary. Consumption of water from the broad street pump was the one common factor among the cholera patients.
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