General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

Just been trying to find who it was that found dead eels in a pump. (Or were they snigs? )

Anyroad, whoever it was, proved that the water supply was linked to a dirty pond and responsible for illness.

It wasn't John Snow. He found that another pump in London was responsible for a cholera outbreak. (Or rather the local water supply)

He removed the handle as an experiment and folk were unable to use it.


Featured on an Adam Hart-Davis show. There's a pub named after Mr Snow and the handle-less pump is still there.