1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak

The Ghost Map, written by Steven Johnson, follows two researchers, John Snow and Henry Whitehead, who are dedicated to solve the Cholera outbreak in London. The Cholera outbreak started in 1854 when a little girl was infected and her contents contaminated a water pump on Broad Street. Soon, London was filled with infected residents and no one could figure out what caused it. Thankfully, John Snow, Henry Whitehead, and other characters were able to understand and piece together how the Cholera outbreak started. John Snow played a big role in understanding what caused the Cholera outbreak in London. John Snow as a physician was very different in 1854 than how a present physician would be in 2016. The main difference pertains to the research methods. During Snow’s research for the Cholera outbreak, he…

The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson gives an in depth account of how a disease can cause immense repercussions in the evolution of society. This story takes place in London in 1854 when there was an enormous outbreak of the disease known as Cholera. Cholera is a disease that wreaks havoc on the body causing deathly dehydration via loss of bodily fluids. This is not just the story of an outbreak. However it discusses many higher order-thinking points in regards to humans and city life. The author…

In The Ghost Map author Steven Johnson illustrates an episodic saga as Dr. John Snow traces throughout London in order to solve one of the greatest epidemic of his time. As Steven Johnson creates the nauseating tale in the early parts of the novel as sanitation engineering was not at its best during the years of 1854, with John Snow enduring the sickening outbreak of diseases and his incentive to find out the causes and why this is happening to everyone around him. This day and age the role of…

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readers through the streets and lives of London filled with the cholera…

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In 1854, Dr. John Snow, devised a map of the London Cholera outbreak. He was known to be one of the founding fathers of epidemiology. During that time period, many civilians were dying quickly and rapidly from Cholera (Frerichs). Dr. John Snow suspected the containment was coming from a well known area like a water pump. Snow obtained data of where the individuals lived and the location of the water pumps and mapped the outcome (Frerichs). The map has many different aspects.First, I will…

discover that cholera was a water-borne illness. What John Snow did differently was he mapped the cases, and the map essentially represented each death as a bar. On the Broad Street pump, which was free, public source of drinking water for a long time, it located a well beneath Golden Square, to some of London’s poorest and crowded area. In August 1854, many residents of Golden Square suddenly became ill and even died. Those sick people began to have upset stomach, diarrhea, gut cramps, vomiting…

as the deadly cholera outbreak. This book is a chronicle about an event that began on August 28, 1854, on Broad Street. A five-month-old infant named Frances Lewis, had developed diarrhea and exhaustion, which were both symptoms of cholera. Dr.William Rogers had taken care her, but she died within a few days. It was established that he mother of the infant, Sarah Lewis washed the soiled clothes and drained the dirty water into the drain of her neglected high-rise building and initiated…