This pump in London killed more than 700 people in two weeks. Metro teamed up with London history blogger and guide, Katie Wignall to explore the Broad Street Pump in Soho which has a dark history... The 1854 cholera epidemic is believed to have started when a soiled diaper was thrown it into the cesspit underneath a house, and that poo seeped into the water, underneath the house, in the in the sewer, filtering its way through the pipes and into the water source. Most people believed that the da

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