2/ Basically, two water companies served a specific geographical area that had a good mixture of economic status. One drew water upstream of London's sewage; the other did not. The cholera rates differed.
(#twitterstorians: is there a good long read on the whole history)
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Errata: Southwark and Vauxhall was one company. The other was Lamberth Waterworks.
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Is this from the podcast?
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Er, PBS special?
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def gonna watch it later, thanks!
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My book The Ghost Map — which is what we based the How We Got To Now segment on — has 300 pages on Snow’s career and the Broad Street outbreak if you really want to dive deep into the story!
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I do! It will have to wait for
#phdone, but thanks :)
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