allpulp.nofiction

At Snow's evidence-based request, the local Board of Guardians removed the Broad Street pump handle on 8 September. Snow never claimed the removal alone stopped the outbreak; the sickness and death numbers were already declining. What his plotted map and the company comparison showed was that the disease moved with contaminated water. He published the fuller account in 1855. Most of the medical establishment of that time still stubbornly preferred to blame miasma, as they did for a multitude of illnesses of the time. Snow died of a stroke in 1858 at the age of forty-five, while finishing a book on chloroform. Notably, the germ that caused cholera would not be identified for another twenty-five years after his death.