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The reason how the spread of cholera was slowed down in London.

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Cholera is an acute epidemic infectious disease causes by the bacterium called Vibrio cholera. It is mainly caused by eating food or drinking water contaminated with this bacterium. The Broad Street cholera outbreak was a severe outbreak of cholera that occurred in 1854 near Broad Street in Soho district of London which killed around 616 people of that street.

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