These might seem like small wins, but as history shows, Soho has withstood numerous attempts at gentrification and redevelopment, as well as bombs, police raids and even the cholera outbreak of 1854.

One image shows the meticulous mapping of a London-based cholera outbreak in 1854 by British physician John Snow, whose work pinpointed the source of the sickness: a contaminated water pump in the ...

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.

But when physician John Snow reconstructed a map of cases in an 1854 outbreak, it showed a common denominator among the sick: water from the Broad Street Pump in Soho.

Until an outbreak erupted literally on his doorstep in the late summer of 1854. In a poor neighborhood like Soho, most people would get their water from these public wells.

One of his most famous maps showed the distribution of cholera cases around a water pump on Broad Street (now Broadwick Street) in Soho, London, during an outbreak in 1854 that killed 616 people. Snow ...

He famously controlled and eliminated a cholera outbreak in London’s Soho in 1854. At the time, it was assumed that cholera was airborne but Dr Snow argued that it entered the body through the ...

Another map records the deaths caused by cholera during the summer and autumn of 1854 in the parishes of St James, Westminster and St Anne, Soho.

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.