In 1854, a cholera epidemic swept through the London neighborhood of Soho. In the course of about three weeks, over 600 people died. This incident was, tragically, not unusual in London or the ...

1854: Physician John Snow convinces a London local council to remove the handle from a pump in Soho. A deadly cholera epidemic in the neighborhood comes to an end immediately, though perhaps ...

Snow compiled data on the two sets of London households and found that during an 1854 epidemic there were 315 deaths from cholera per 10,000 homes among those supplied by Southwark-Vauxhall but ...

London, circa 1854. A deadly cholera outbreak has caught the neighborhood of Soho in its teeth. The young, the old, the hale, the weak—this is an indiscriminate disease, and it’s moving fast.

As the summer of 1854 wound down, a cholera outbreak swept through a single neighborhood in London: Soho, Snow’s own backyard.

The Ghost Map The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic -- and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World Steven Johnson Riverhead Books: 302 pp., $26.95 ...

The 1854 cholera outbreak in Soho, London. London had already experienced serious outbreaks of cholera in 1832 and 1849, but the events in series three of ITV drama Victoria focus on the Broad ...

In 1854, English physician John Snow figured out that water carried a cholera outbreak in London's Soho by pinpointing the locations affected. Even then, he could not isolate the microbe under a ...

The cholera epidemic of 1854 quickly killed more than 600 people in a neighborhood of London. Officials incorrectly assumed it spread through smelly air until one maverick doctor insisted that ...