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I think 200 years ago people were mostly trying to stay away from water as much as possible not to get sick. They were drinking beers, meads and all kind of stu
by ozim 8y ago
I think 200 years ago people were mostly trying to stay away from water as much as possible not to get sick. They were drinking beers, meads and all kind of stuff that was somehow preprocessed. Still in a lot of places good water from tap is not reality.
- DonaldFisk 8y agoIndeed. Cholera was a serious problem. in 1854, Dr John Snow, suspecting that contaminated water rather than "miasma" was the cause, mapped the cholera deaths in Soho, London: https://www1.udel.edu/johnmack/frec682/cholera/ https://www1.udel.edu/johnmack/frec682/cholera/ The closer to the Broad Street pump, the higher the death rate, with one exception: the nearby brewery. The workers at the brewery drank beer instead of water. (The water used to brew beer is boiled, killing the bacteria.) Dr Snow had the handle removed from the pump, ending the epidemic. There's now a pub nearby called the John Snow (in what is now called Broadwick Street), and a kerbstone made of pink granite where the pump was.