Once the big threats to public health were controlled (with clean water and food and effective sanitation), the only way to stay in business was to find the next 'biggest threat,' even if it wasn't a big threat, and here we are. John Snow removing the handle from the Broad Street water pump in London isn't remembered as a tyrannical move…
Once the big threats to public health were controlled (with clean water and food and effective sanitation), the only way to stay in business was to find the next 'biggest threat,' even if it wasn't a big threat, and here we are. John Snow removing the handle from the Broad Street water pump in London isn't remembered as a tyrannical move, but one that saved many lives, through his recognition, by collecting and mapping the data, that most cases of cholera centered on that common-use water pump.
Once the big threats to public health were controlled (with clean water and food and effective sanitation), the only way to stay in business was to find the next 'biggest threat,' even if it wasn't a big threat, and here we are. John Snow removing the handle from the Broad Street water pump in London isn't remembered as a tyrannical move, but one that saved many lives, through his recognition, by collecting and mapping the data, that most cases of cholera centered on that common-use water pump.