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The Cholera Maps

Posted on Tuesday 5 March 2019 by Oliver O’Brien

The John Snow Cholera Map is world famous as the map that identified the cause of the disease, and was one of the first epidemiological maps created. However, a number of other maps of the location of individuals with the disease were produced at aroun…

1849, 1854, 1866, Cholera, data, Disease, epidemiology, Historic

How the Victorians Mapped London’s Cholera

Posted on Saturday 2 March 2019 by James Cheshire

It is, of course, John Snow who is credited with using maps to demonstrate that the clusters of deaths from cholera in London’s Soho during London’s 1854 outbreak were caused by contaminated water. This marked a major shift in thinking away from the disease being transmitted through dirty air: the more widely accepted theory at […]

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Mapping Cholera

Posted on Monday 23 June 2014 by James Cheshire

John Snow’s map of cholera has become one of the […]

Broad Street, Cholera, Disease, epidemiology, health, Historic, John Snow, map wellcome, soho, visualisation, wellcome, wellcome collection

John Snow’s Cholera Map

Posted on Wednesday 9 March 2011 by James Cheshire

Embedded below is a high resolution version of John Snow’s 1854 map of the Broad Street (now Broadwick Street) cholera outbreak. Widely cited as the one of the first (and…

1854, Broad Street, Cholera, Demographics, epidemiology, Infographics, John Snow