The University of Chichester's Musical Theatre Performance Company is proud to present "Something in the Water" as part of its New Musical Summer Project. The production is about John Snow, a ...

John Snow's 1854 Cholera Map This repository contains a selection of georeferenced files that can be used to re-create and analyse John Snow's iconic map of the 1854 cholera outbreak in Soho, London.

John Snow's 1854 Cholera Map This repository contains a selection of georeferenced files that can be used to re-create and analyse John Snow's iconic map of the 1854 cholera outbreak in Soho, London.

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John Snow, the father of modern epidemiology! On September 7, 1854, Dr. John Snow took his research to the officials, who reluctantly agreed to his suggestion and took the handle off a pump.

How the 1854 cholera outbreak led to the birth of the modern public health system.

Snow’s map showed cholera cases were clustered around a water pump. John Snow / Wellcome Collection At least, that’s the simple version many people are already familiar with.

The London cholera epidemic of 1854 may be the primary subject of Steven Johnson's thought-provoking The Ghost Map, but it's the many secondary subjects that make it such an engaging read.

In 1854, a string of cases appeared in Soho, in central London. Physician John Snow worked just a few streets away. Snow went from door to door and began to plot cholera cases on a map.