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Toilets of the WorldCholera and John Snow's Pump — Victorian PlumbingDr John Snow discovered the source of the 1854 cholera epidemic in London. He disabled this pump and ended the outbreak, and is now a hero of public health. All this and more on the Toilets of the World.