What factor(s) may have influenced the decrease in the number of deaths from cholera up until the time John Snow removed the handle of the Broad Street?

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The following graph shows the frequency of deaths due to the cholera outbreak in Golden Square, Broad Street, London, 1854

 

  What factor(s) may have influenced the decrease in the number of deaths from cholera up until the time John Snow removed the handle of the Broad Street? 

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* Terrible outbreak of cholera took place in braod Street of london.

*  John snow is anesthesiologist who investigated on epidemic of london cholera.

* Cholera is acute diarrhea caused by vibrato cholera bacteria.

*Cholera is the epidemic of europian cities mainly in the london in 19th century.

* John snow who investigated on this epidemic found that contaminated water is the main cause of this disease.

*. He investigated  people whether people drunk the water or not . This investigation helped him to know from where the cholera is spreading from.

* The people who drunk the water is  have the cholera.

*The people who didn't drunk the water is not having any cholera.

* He found that water from broad Street pump was the source of this epidemic called cholera.

* His investigations said that the people who live near the broad Street pump consume water more from this pump hence people near the broad Street pump was more likely to contact with cholera.

* The places near to broad Street pump like restaurants and school and bussiness more affected with cholera .

 

 

 

 

 

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