The Soho Brewery Whose Workers Did Not Die in the 1854 Cholera Outbreak Because They Drank Beer Instead of Water
The Lion Brewery on Broad Street stood about thirty metres from the contaminated pump that killed five hundred people in the 1854 Soho cholera outbreak. None of its seventy workers died. They drank approximately four pints of beer each daily from the brewery's own well — and the well was uncontaminated.
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