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Although the numbers of cases had already began to decline it is likely that the removal of the pump handle prevented another outbreak - around the same time as the pump handle was removed the father of the child at 40 Broad street also became ill - his faeces would have contaminated the well and probably led to another outbreak. General Board of Health Report 1854. “We do not find it established that the water was contaminated in the manner alleged; nor is there before us any sufficient evidence to show whether inhabitants of the district, drinking from the well suffered in proportion more than other inhabitants of the district who drank from other sources.”