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The city of Saratoga New York has old-style fountains: http://www.saratoga.com/waters-of-saratoga/ http://www.saratoga.com/waters-of-saratoga/ Notice in the ma
by jhallenworld 11y ago
The city of Saratoga New York has old-style fountains: http://www.saratoga.com/waters-of-saratoga/ http://www.saratoga.com/waters-of-saratoga/
Notice in the map of cholera deaths that there is a brewery, but with no deaths. Supposedly this is because the workers were free to drink the product.
- garrettgrimsley 11y agoA simpler explanation for that is that people with cholera do not go to work. I looked up the event and the Wikipedia article on it [0] made mention of a monastery in addition to the brewery that went untouched by the outbreak. Unfortunately I could not find it on the outbreak map [1], nor do I have access to the source material. This is similar to how children outside of the Broad Street area who attended school near Broad Street were not recorded as having died at the school but instead in their homes. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1854_Broad_Street_cholera_outbreak#John_Snow_investigation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1854_Broad_Street_cholera_outb... [1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/Snow-cholera-map-1.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/Snow-cho...