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> From: "Lloyd Burrell" <
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> Date: April 26, 2014 12:55:09 PM CDT
> Subject: The residents of London's SoHo started dying
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> On 31 August 1854 the residents of London's SoHo started dying.
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> In those days SoHo was an insanitary place. Animal feces, slaughterhouses, grease-boiling houses, decaying sewers were about the size of it.
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> Underneath cellar floorboards lurked cesspits as old as the houses, many of which had never been drained.
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> Within 3 days 127 people had died.
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> Within a week, people were fleeing their homes. Shops were shuttered, houses locked and streets deserted. Only those who couldn't afford to leave stayed behind. It was like the Plague all over again.
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> By 10 September the number of fatal attacks had reached 500.
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> The cause?
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> Cholera.
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> The prevailing wisdom was that it was transmitted by 'bad air'.
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> John Snow, a well-respected doctor; had other ideas. He suspected that the Cholera was transmitted not by 'bad air' but by food or water.
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> He decided to do something about it. He went out and talked to the remaining residents. He asked them questions about their life in the area and about what they ate and what they drank. He mapped the location of the homes of the victims and noticed that most lived near the Broad Street water pump. He pleaded with local officials to get the handle of the pump removed.
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> Eventually they listened.
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> He took the pump handle back to his laboratory to analyze it. His tests showed nothing. No biological or chemical cause of the cholera.
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> But once the pump had been dismantled the epidemic subsided.
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> Dr. Snow was right.
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> Despite not having any laboratory evidence or 'absolute proof' he'd determined that drinking water from the Broad Street pump was the cause of the outbreak.
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> He did this by compiling, analyzing and drawing conclusions from a large amount of data. Nothing else.
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> In so doing, a new branch of science was born - epidemiology. The science of studying disease in populations.
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> Fast forward to today.
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> Another Doctor is looking at some very different data and compiling/analyzing/drawing conclusions
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> He's also challenging prevailing wisdom on a very different subject.
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> EMFs and health.
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> Click here to read more.
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> Lloyd Burrell
> ElectricSense
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> ElectricSense, BP 30010, Les Mathes, 17570, FRANCE
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