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  • John Snow
    John Snow
    / Broad Street pump and the Grand Experiment

    …second study was the “Grand Experiment,” also of 1854, which compared London neighbourhoods receiving water from two different companies. One company relied on inlets coming from the upper River Thames, located away from urban pollution, and the other company relied on inlets in the heart of London, where the…

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    …second study was the “Grand Experiment,” also of 1854, which compared London neighbourhoods receiving water from two different companies. One company relied on inlets coming from the upper River Thames, located away from urban pollution, and the other company relied on inlets in the heart of London, where the…

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