http://pervasiveia.com Designing Cross-Channel User Experiences Sat, 17 Sep 2011 08:03:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 http://pervasiveia.com/blog/john-snow-and-the-removal-of-the-broad-street-pump-handle http://pervasiveia.com/blog/john-snow-and-the-removal-of-the-broad-street-pump-handle#comments Sat, 05 Dec 2009 20:40:11 +0000 Andrea http://pervasiveia.tumblr.com/post/270703198 “Among the 70 workers in a Broad Street brewery, where the men were given an allowance of free beer every day and so never drank water at all, there were no fatalities at all. And an army officer living in St John’s Wood had died after dining in Wardour Street, where he too had drunk a glass of water from the Broad Street well”.

• Broad Street Pump Outbreak
• John Snow and the removal of the Broad Street pump handle

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