An English physician credited as a founder of modern epidemiology for his 1854 investigation of a cholera outbreak in London Soho district, in which he traced cases to a single contaminated water pump on Broad Street and had its handle removed, at a time when the prevailing miasma theory held that disease spread through bad air rather than contaminated water.
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Notable ForThe 1854 Broad Street cholera investigation and map, a founding case study of epidemiology 2 Connections
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1. Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc.- Birth Year: 1813
- Death Year: 1858
- Nationality: English
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UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology- Notable For: The 1854 Broad Street cholera investigation and map, a founding case study of epidemiology
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was an English physician
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He is considered one of the founders of modern epidemiology and early germ theory
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