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. . . and some people never acquire it. For many years, though, it was safer in some areas to drink beer than to drink the local water. The classic example was the 1854 cholera outbreak in London, which centred on the well in Broad Street (now renamed Broadwick Street), whose water was contaminated. 578 people died, but these included none of the workers at the brewery one block east of the Broad Street pump. They could drink all the beer they wanted; the fermentation killed the cholera bacteria, and none of the brewery workers contracted the disease.
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