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World Service,25 Jul 2020,9 mins

Data in the time of cholera

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Tim Harford speaks to Steven Johnson about William Farr and the birth of epidemiology in the 1800s. (British epidemiologist William Farr circa 1865 in London. Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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