John Snow’s map, published in his On The Mode Of Communication Of Cholera, of the 1854 cholera outbreak in London is one of the best known examples of data visualization and information design: By ...

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. These files were developed to ...

In 1848, there was a second outbreak of cholera in London. Dr John Snow, a physician and specialist in medical hygiene, doubted that bad air caused the disease. Dr Snow carried out his own ...

John Snow is often called the founder of epidemiology, the study of health in populations. He is best known for his work on tracking the spread of cholera during an epidemic in London in 1854.

In 1854, a serious outbreak of cholera near Broad Street (now Broadwick Street) in Soho, London, killed 616 people. Physician John Snow’s investigation of the outbreak critically changed our ...

A map (p106-107) taken from a report by Dr. John Snow: p. [97]-120 of the "Report on the cholera outbreak in the Parish of St. James, Westminster, during the autumn of 1854", presented to the vestry ...