John Snow, Father of ... Realizing that a common factor among the victims was use of a particular communal water pump, Snow removed the pump handle -- and the outbreak subsided.

1854: Physician John Snow convinces a London local council to remove the handle from a pump in Soho. A deadly cholera epidemic in the neighborhood comes to an end immediately, though perhaps ...

The well's pump handle was removed and the cholera outbreak ended. This is where most textbooks end. But there's a second part to the story—Snow's Grand Experiment.

Snow may be best remembered for tracing a 1854 cholera outbreak to a well on Broad St. in London—and then having the pump handle removed, so the locals couldn't draw water there anymore; even ...

John Snow is often called the founder of epidemiology, the study of health in populations. He is best known for his work on tracking the spread of cholera during an epidemic in London in 1854. It ...

John Snow, the father of modern epidemiology! On September 7, 1854, Dr. John Snow took his research to the officials, who reluctantly agreed to his suggestion and took the handle off a pump.

Snow persuaded the local parish officials to remove the handle of the Broad Street pump, ostensibly curtailing the epidemic. In fact, the removal had little to do with ending the outbreak, which was ...

Game of Thrones' Jon Snow may know nothing, but the real-life John Snow knew a heck of a lot. In fact, the 19th century Snow helped found the entire field of epidemiology with his revolutionary ...

Snow had another idea. He persuaded civic officials to remove the handle from the Broad Street pump , a water source for the neighboring businesses and residents. And fairly quickly, the cholera ...

If you’re schlepping around Soho and want to welcome back the Jon Snow pump, you can find it outside the John Snow Pub on Broadwick Street. Spending the day in W1? Here's our guide to Soho.