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Broad Street Pump

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Broad Street Pump
A pump used to draw drinking water from the Thames in the London cholera epidemic in 1855
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John Snow's use of early epidemiologic tools to associate cholera deaths with water from the Broad Street pump, Louis Pasteur's development of vaccines, and Robert Koch's discovery of tubercle bacillus and the cholera vibrio all get their deserved attention; Florence Nightingale's use of numerical data to demonstrate improvements in patient hygiene comes as a pleasant surprise.
Twelve Diseases That Changed Our World by Ward, John W. / Emerging Infectious Diseases
This year we are celebrating the 150th anniversary of the famous Broad Street Pump incident.
How will history treat today's public health and environmental health ... by Balsamo, James, Jr. / Journal of Environmental Health
His "grand experiment" in 1854 (comparing cholera deaths in South London households that had consumed contaminated water with those that had not consumed contaminated water) is often considered a classic (2), but the Broad Street pump outbreak is perhaps the more famous historical account and is the subject of Steven Johnson's new book, The Ghost Map.
The Ghost Map by Frerichs, Ralph R. / Emerging Infectious Diseases
 
 
 
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