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Original map by John Snow showing the clusters of cholera cases (indicated by stacked rectangles) in the London epidemic of 1854. The contaminated pump is located at the crossroads of Broad Street and Cambridge Street (now Lexington Street), running into Little Windmill Street.
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.
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.
A replica of the famous London pump in SoHo--after John Snow closed it down there were no more new cases of cholera. Chadwick was working on removing the waste and dirt as the solution but exactly what was causing the disease was not known until the work of John Snow in 1854. [37]
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Original map by John Snow showing the clusters of cholera cases in the London epidemic of 1854. The 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak was a severe outbreak of cholera that occurred in 1854 near Broad Street (now Broadwick Street) in the Soho district of London, England, and occurred during the third cholera
The John Snow, formerly the Newcastle-upon-Tyne, is a public house in Broadwick Street, in the Soho district of the City of Westminster, part of the West End of London, and dates back to the 1870s. It is named for the British epidemiologist and anaesthetist John Snow, who identified the nearby water pump as the source of a cholera outbreak in 1854.
Broad Street was notorious as the centre of an 1854 outbreak of cholera. [2] This outbreak killed a total of 700 people and only twelve escaped. [3] Physician John Snow traced the outbreak to a public water pump on the street, and disabled the pump. [4] Before this time, the disease was widely thought to be caused by air-borne 'miasma'; Snow's ...