Hampstead
Then a village on the northern edge of London, where a widow died of cholera in 1854 after drinking water carried from the Broad Street pump.
Today: Hampstead, London, England
The Pump in Broad Street, 1854
John Snow, On the Mode of Communication of Cholera, 2nd edition (1855) · 1855 (events of August–September 1854)
Dr. Fraser also first called my attention to the following circumstances, which are perhaps the most conclusive of all in proving the connexion between the Broad Street pump and the outbreak of cholera. In the “Weekly Return of Births and Deaths” of September 9th, the following death is recorded as occurring in the Hampstead district: “At West End, on 2nd September, the widow of a percussion-cap maker, aged 59 years, diarrhoea two hours, cholera epidemica sixteen hours.”
Dr. Fraser also first called my attention to the following circumstances, which are perhaps the most conclusive of all in proving the connection between the Broad Street pump and the outbreak of cholera. In the “Weekly Return of Births and Deaths” of September 9th, the following death is recorded as occurring in the Hampstead district: “At West End, on 2nd September, the widow of a percussion-cap maker, aged 59 years, diarrhea two hours, cholera epidemica sixteen hours.”