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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic – and How it Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World is a book by Steven Berlin Johnson in which he describes the most intense outbreak of cholera in Victorian London and centers on John Snow and Henry Whitehead. [1] It was released on 19 October 2006 through Riverhead.
The Broad Street cholera outbreak (or Golden Square outbreak) was a severe outbreak of cholera that occurred in 1854 near Broad Street (now Broadwick Street) in Soho, London, England, and occurred during the 1846–1860 cholera pandemic happening worldwide.
Henry Whitehead (22 September 1825 – 5 March 1896) was a Church of England priest and the assistant curate of St Luke's Church in Soho, London, during the 1854 cholera outbreak. [ 1 ] A former believer in the miasma theory of disease , Whitehead worked to disprove false theories, but eventually came to prefer John Snow's idea that cholera ...
John Snow (15 March 1813 – 16 June 1858 [1]) was an English physician and a leader in the development of anaesthesia and medical hygiene.He is considered one of the founders of modern epidemiology and early germ theory, in part because of his work in tracing the source of a cholera outbreak in London's Soho, which he identified as a particular public water pump.
Thomas Shapter (1809–1902) was born in Gibraltar, graduated from the University of Edinburgh, [1] and arrived in Exeter in the year cholera arrived, 1832. Today, Shapter is best known for the account he wrote of this devastating cholera outbreak, entitled The History of the Cholera in Exeter in 1832.
Cock Lane, a street in the City of London. Hall Place, in the London Borough of Bexley. [23] [24] Hampton Court Palace, a royal palace in the borough of Richmond upon Thames. [25] Langham Hotel, a hotel in the City of Westminster. [26] Tower of London, a castle in the borough of Tower Hamlets.
A drawing of Jacob's Island from 1813. Jacob's Island was a notorious slum in Bermondsey, London, in the 19th century.It was located on the south bank of the River Thames, approximately delineated by the modern streets of Mill Street, Bermondsey Wall West, George Row and Wolseley Street.
Cloudesley Square is a square in the Barnsbury district of Islington, North London. It is bounded by Georgian terraced houses, all of which are listed buildings. The central area is occupied by the Gothic Revival former Holy Trinity Church, designed by Charles Barry.