The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic -- And How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World; The Strange Case of the Broad Street Pump: John Snow and the Mystery of Cholera

doi:10.1056/NEJMbkrev57931

Volume 356:1593-1594		April 12, 2007		Number 15

The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic — And How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
The Strange Case of the Broad Street Pump: John Snow and the Mystery of Cholera

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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic — And How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
By Steven Johnson. 299 pp., illustrated. New York, Riverhead Books, 2006. $26.95. ISBN 978-1-59448-925-9.

The Strange Case of the Broad Street Pump: John Snow and the Mystery of Cholera
By Sandra Hempel. 321 pp., illustrated. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2007. $24.95. ISBN 978-0-520-25049-9.

London in 1854 was a virtual sea of human and animal waste,and it stank. Two and a half million people were crammed intoa 30-mile circumference with no means of safe sewage disposal.Historically, cholera, which had been endemic in India for millennia,was spread by people in caravans, military operations, pilgrimages,and sailing ships to cause seven great pandemics. The diseasereached England for the first time during the second pandemic,in June 1831, and again during . . . [Full Text of this Article]