The pump handle was removed and the outbreak brought under control. Snow was a skeptic so he plotted the data on a map and noticed a correlation between the water pump and the outbreak. The dominant infection theory at the time was transmission through ‘bad air’. Its regarded as one of the first examples of using spatial data to solve a problem and transform health.
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