
Paddy Dracula
The Blindboy Podcast
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What Is Happening in Soho?
In the 18 fifties, there was a particularly bad outbreak of cholera in soho. A doctor called john snow noticed that everyone who was dying from cholera was drinking from the same water pump. And he figured out that the water from this water pump was also being mixed with sewage water. So he took the handle off the water pump and people oped using that particular water pump for their water. And then people in the area stopped getting sick fromCholera. He discovered germ theory, that diseases are passed between humans through little bacteria or viruses,. We can stop the prevention of diseases if we look at these things. It led me into some interesting territory. Cause
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