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Thursday, September 7, 1854

Cause of Cholera disease discovered

The disease Cholera has been affecting London killing hundreds of people for at least a fortnight. Now Doctor John Snow, a pioneer of disease and father of epidemiology, has his theory of how the city's water has caused of all this sickness and death.

"I have been working day and night to find the cause of this disease," Doctor Snow explains. "I have the locations of the victims' homes and discovered that the closest pump to nearly all of them is the Broad Street pump. The victim's families also explained to me that they used that water pump in particular."

Reverend Henry Whitehead has also been investigating this case and is willing to share his story.

"At first I thought the epidemic was caused by divine intervention," Whitehead explains, "but that was before I heard about the baby with diarrhoea. I went to investigate and discovered that the baby lived on 40 Broad Street. The cesspool at the front of the house was 3 feet away from the pump. I asked for the ground to be dug up and a crack was found that allowed the contents of the cesspool to enter the well contaminating the water. The whole thing was unnecessary. If London's drainage and sewer systems had been made better this would never have happened."

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