The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World

by Steven Johnson

  Agrarian capitalism

  Agrarian peoples, and alcohol

  Agricultural societies

  Air, foul, as source of disease

  Air quality, in cities

  water supplies and

  Albert, Prince of England

  Alcohol

  antibacterial properties

  Snow and

  Aluminum-can collectors

  Amateurism, engaged

  Anesthetics, early use

  Anesthetist, Snow as

  Angola

  Ant colonies

  Apothecaries, in nineteenth-century England

  Asymmetric warfare

  genetic technology and

  nuclear weapons and

  population density and

  Australian Aborigines, and alcohol

  Avian flu

  Bacteria

  cities and

  evolution of

  as scavengers

  and smell

  tea and

  Victorians and

  See also Vibrio cholerae

  Bangladesh, cholera outbreaks

  Barbarism, civilization and

  Basra, cholera outbreak

  Bazalgette, Joseph

  Beer, antibacterial properties

  Behavior, collective

  Benjamin, Walter

  Berwick Street (Soho)

  cholera outbreak

  Bifurcations, human societies and

  Bills of Mortality

  Biological weapons

  DNA-based

  Birth rates, urbanization and

  Blake, William

  Bleak House (Dickens)

  Blenkinsopp (cholera victim)

  Bloomberg, Michael

  Board of Health

  and Broad Street cholera outbreak

  and Broad Street well

  Chadwick and

  map of investigation

  and waterborne theory

  Bombay. See Mumbai

  Bone-pickers

  Bones, human, waste recycling and

  Brain, smell and

  Bramah, Joseph

  Brand, Stewart

  Breakthroughs, intellectual

  Britain, cholera in

  See also Broad Street (Soho), cholera outbreak

  Broad Street (Soho)

  cholera outbreak

  books about

  deaths from

  Snow’s investigation

  Whitehead and

  Broad Street map, impact of

  Broad Street pump

  and cholera deaths

  Paving Board and

  removal of handle

  water from

  Broad Street well

  examination of

  Vibrio cholerae in

  Broadwick. See Broad Street (Soho)

  Budd, William

  Burial grounds, London

  Burke, Edmund

  Burney, Fanny

  Carbon dioxide

  Cartographies of Disease (Koch)

  Castor oil

  Catastrophes, urban, damage from

  Cesspools

  Broad Street

  elimination of

  emptying of

  water closets and

  Chadwick, Edwin

  and sewers

  and Snow

  and waste recycling

  Chelsea Water Company

  Chemical weapons

  Cheyne, George

  Chicago, cholera outbreak

  Chicago River

  Childbirth, chloroform and

  Children

  and Broad Street pump

  deaths of

  infant mortality rates

  as scavengers

  Childs, G. B.

  Chloride of lime

  Chloroform

  Snow and

  Cholera

  Angola outbreak

  “blue stage”

  East End outbreak

  fear of

  modernization of infrastructure and

  recovery from

  remedies

  Snow and

  theories of spread

  water as cure for

  See also Broad Street (Soho), cholera outbreak; Vibrio cholerae (cholera bacteria)

  Cholera, Chloroform, and the Science of Medicine

  Cholera in Berwick Street, The (Whitehead)

  Cities

  benefits of

  crowded, and transmission of cholera

  in developing countries

  digital maps of

  and disease

  and environment

  flow of ideas

  infrastructure projects

  largest

  medieval system

  modern

  nineteenth-century view

  post-9/11

  See also Towns

  City-planet

  biological warfare and

  safety of

  threats to

  City Press (London)

  Civilization

  barbarism and

  and smell

  Clark, James

  Coevolutionary development

  Coffee

  Coffeehouses

  Colosseum (Rome)

  Communications

  Internet

  and medicine

  in Victorian-era London

  Complex systems, waste recycling and

  Composting pits

  COMPSTAT system

  Confirmation bias

  Consciousness, human

  “Consilience of Inductions, The” (Whewell)

  Consumers, in cities

  Contagion theory of cholera spread

  Cooper, Edmund

  Coral reefs

  Corpses, in Victorian-era London

  Cost of cholera cures

  Cow-dung-fueled generators

  Craven, Earl of

  Craven’s Field

  Cross Street (Soho), cholera deaths

  CTX phage

  Cubbitt, Thomas

  Cummings, Alexander

  Daily News (London)

  Death

  from cholera

  in cities

  Death and Life of the Great American City (Jacobs)

  Decomposition, bacteria-driven

  Dehydration, of cholera

  Developing countries

  cholera outbreaks

  population control

  Dickens, Charles

  Bleak House

  and children

  Hard Times

  Little Dorrit

  Nicholas Nickleby

  Our Mutual Friend

  Diffusion of gases, law of

  Digital networks

  Disease, cities and

  Divine will, Whitehead and

  DNA-based weapons

  Doctor of Medicine

  Snow as

  Doctors, and treatment of cholera

  Doctors Without Borders

  Dog excrement, recycling of

  Dot mapping

  Drinking water

  contaminated

  safe

  Drug companies, price gouging by

  East End, London, cholera outbreak

  East London Water Company

  Ebola virus

  Ecosystems, waste recycling and

  Ehrlich, Paul

  Electricity

  Elevation, cholera deaths and

  Eley, Susannah

  Eley brothers

  Eley Brothers factory

  Eliot, George

  Elizabeth I, Queen of England

  Enclosure movement

  Energy, cities and

  Engels, Friedrich

  Environment

  changes in, and evolution of bacteria

  in cities

  organisms and

  Environmental health, cities and

  Epidemics

  and history

  maps of

  population density and

  Snow and


  Epidemiological Society

  Epidemiology

  Ethanol

  Ether

  Eukaryotic cells

  Evolution

  of disease organisms

  and sense of smell

  “Exciting” causes of disease

  Excrement eating, cholera bacterium and

  Experiments, Snow and

  Experimentum crucis

  Board of Health and

  Farm animals, in Victorian-era London

  Farming, efficiency of

  Farming system, disruption of

  Farr, William

  and East End cholera outbreak

  records of

  and waterborne theory

  Weekly Returns of Birth and Deaths

  and “Great Stink”

  and waterborne theory

  Fear, urban life and

  Ferguson, Daniel

  Fermentation

  Fertilizer, human waste as

  Fleet River

  Folk remedies

  Fossil fuels, limited supply

  French novels, of nineteenth century

  Frerichs, Ralph

  Freud, Sigmund

  Full House (Gould)

  G (Mr., tailor)

  General Board of Health. See also Board of Health

  Generator, waste-fueled

  Genetic studies, application of

  Genetic tolerance for alcohol

  Genomic revolution

  GeoSentinel

  Germ theory of disease

  Ghost class, London

  Global challenges

  Global energy network

  Global Report on Human Settlements (UN)

  Global warming

  Globe (London), and cholera outbreak

  Golden Square (Soho)

  cholera outbreak

  deaths

  map

  Snow and

  water

  See also Broad Street (Soho); Soho (London district)

  Google

  Gossip, and cholera outbreak

  Gould, John

  Gould, Stephen Jay

  Government

  and mapping technology

  and public health

  and sanitation

  urban, and information

  Graham, Thomas

  Grand Junction Water Works

  Great Exhibition (1851)

  Great Plague (1665)

  “Great Stink” (Thames pollution)

  “Green” cities

  Green’s Court

  Gunpowder, manufacture of

  Hall, Benjamin

  and miasma theory

  and Snow

  and waterborne theory

  Hamburg, cholera outbreak

  Hard Times (Dickens)

  Harington, John

  Harnold, John

  Harrison (Berwick Street surgeon)

  Hassall, Arthur

  Health, cities and

  Hemenway, Toby

  H5N1 (avian flu virus)

  Hippocrates, and cholera

  On Air, Water, and Places

  History

  epidemic disease and

  turning points

  London sewers as

  urbanization and

  Hogarth, William

  Homelessness

  Hooke, Robert

  Horsleydown, cholera outbreak

  Hospitals, in urban centers

  Huggins, Edward and John

  Human consciousness

  Human culture, and excrement eating

  Human excrement, collection of

  Human genetic change

  Human organization, patterns of

  Hunter-gatherer societies

  Hunterian School of Medicine (London)

  Hydrogen sulfide

  Hysteria, in Victorian era

  Iberall, Arthur

  Ideas

  cross-disciplinary flow of, in cities

  incorrect

  Immune system

  Index case (Broad Street)

  India, cholera outbreaks

  Industrial Age

  and cholera

  See also Industrial Revolution

  Industrial Revolution

  Infant mortality rates

  Infectious diseases, Web mapping of

  Influence of Snow’s map

  Information technology

  Inner-city air, as disease source

  Inner-city life, in Victorian era

  Insulin

  Intellectual progress

  Internal-constitution theory of cholera spread

  Internet

  John Snow sites

  Istanbul, Sultaneyli village

  Jacobs, Jane

  Death and Life of the Great American City

  James, John

  Jennings, George

  John Snow (pub)

  Kamen, Dean

  Kay-Shuttleworth, James

  Kemp House

  Killingworth Colliery

  Knossos, composting pits

  Knowledge, Internet and

  Koch, Robert

  Koch, Tom

  Lactose tolerance

  Lambeth water company

  Lancet, The

  and contagion theory

  editors of

  obituary of Snow

  Snow and

  Largest cities

  Latta, Thomas

  Lea River

  Leather-tanning process

  Lewis, Sarah

  Lewis, Thomas

  Lewis infant

  Whitehead and

  Life expectancy, in cities

  Lion Brewery

  Liszt, Franz

  Little Dorrit (Dickens)

  Local knowledge

  Internet and

  in urban environments

  Locock, Dr. (Queen Victoria’s physician)

  London

  Regent Street

  sewer system

  Snow and

  Soho. See also Broad Street (Soho); Golden Square, (Soho); specific sites or institutions

  in Victorian era

  animals in

  burial grounds

  communication system

  dangers of

  scavengers

  sewers

  waste removal

  water supply

  London Epidemiological Society

  London Labour and the London Poor (Mayhew)

  London Medical Gazette

  London Times

  and cholera

  and medicine

  and Thames pollution

  “Long tail” economics

  Low Countries, waste recycling and