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This is a joint meeting with Thinktank: Birmingham Science Museum

David Moore describes how John Snow identified the source of a cholera outbreak in London and showed it to be a water-borne disease.

About the Speaker

David Moore has given several talks to Newcomen Midlands in the last few years. He has been heavily involved with the trust that has rescued and preserved the Sandfields steam pumping engine at Lichfield, Staffordshire.