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What did the curate Henry Whitehead discover during his six-month house-to-house investigation of the 1854 Soho cholera outbreak?
Henry Whitehead set out to disprove John Snow's water theory. After six months of fieldwork in Soho he identified Sarah Lewis at 40 Broad Street — whose five-month-old daughter Frances had died of an unidentified diarrheal illness on 28 August, with the diapers washed into the cesspool of the Broad Street pump. The baby's death predated the outbreak by two days. Whitehead converted from sceptic to Snow's strongest public defender.
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The Curate Who Doubted John Snow Henry Whitehead set out to disprove John Snow's water theory. He spent six months knocking on doors in Soho. By the end he had identified the index case.
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