The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
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Malaria
Manufacturing, London
Mapping systems, urban
Maps
of cholera outbreak
and future epidemics
local knowledge
Snow’s, originality of
Margulis, Lynn
Marx, Karl
Mass behavior
Mass communication, in Victorian-era London
Mayfair (London district)
Mayhew, Henry
London Labour and the London Poor
and miasma theory
Morning Chronicle article
and waste recycling
Medical education, in nineteenth century
Medicine, in Victorian era
and cholera
scientific method and
surgery
Megacities
Mekalanos, John
Methane gas
explosions
Metropolitan Commission of Sewers
and cholera outbreak
Metropolitan life. See Urban life; Urbanization
Mexico City
Miasma theory of cholera spread
biological basis
Board of Health and
and Broad Street pump
Chadwick and
confirmation bias
Farr and
Hall and
maps and
power of
Snow and
social prejudice and
Vestry Committee and
Microbes. See Bacteria
Microscopes
Middlemarch (Eliot)
Middlesex Hospital (London)
Moore’s Law
Morning Chronicle (London)
and Chadwick
Mayhew article
Morton, William
Mozart, Leopold
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Mud-larks
Mumbai, Squatter Colony
Nash, John
Native Americans, and alcohol
Nausea
Neighborhoods, street-level knowledge
Netherlands, waste recycling and
Neuwirth, Robert
New River Water Company
New York City
cholera outbreak
311 service
911 system
New York Evening Post
Newspapers, in Victorian-era London
and cholera outbreaks
and medicine
See also specific newspapers
Newton, Isaac
Newton, John Frank
Niche environments, in cities
Nicholas Nickleby (Dickens)
Night soil, and night-soil men
Nightingale, Florence
and miasma theory
9/11 attacks
Nonrenewable energy, urbanization and
Notes on Nursing (Nightingale)
Nuclear weapons
Nuisances Removal and Contagious Diseases Prevention Act
Obituary of Snow
Observer (London)
and cholera deaths
Offensive trades
Old Ford reservoir
On Air, Water, and Places (Hippocrates)
On the Inhalation of the Vapour of Ether in Surgical Operations (Snow)
On the Mode and Communication of Cholera (Snow)
Opium
Our Mutual Friend (Dickens)
Owen, David
Pacini, Filippo
Pain management, Snow and
Pandemic, global
Paris, in nineteenth century
Parliament
Farr’s testimony
Snow and
Thames pollution and
Pasteur, Louis
Patent medicines
Penny Newsman (London)
Pepys, Samuel
Percussion caps
Perpendadores
Pesthouse fields
Peter Street, cholera outbreak
Pets, in Victorian-era London
Phase transitions, human societies and
Phillips, Richard
Phrenology
Physicians, in Victorian era
Snow as physician
and treatment of cholera
Plague, government intervention and
Plague burial grounds
Poland Street (Soho), cholera deaths
Poland Street Workhouse
Politics, network technology and
Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834
Population Bomb, The (Ehrlich)
Population control, cities and
Population density
and disease
and environment
perils of
and transmission of cholera
urbanization and
in Victorian-era London
Populations
growth of
London, 1800s
statistics
urban
Portland (Oregon)
Postal service, London
Posttraumatic stress disorder
Poverty
in developed world
in Victorian-era London
“Predisposing” causes of disease
Prelude, The (Wordsworth)
Price gouging by drug companies
Progress, intellectual
Prokaryotes
ProMED-mail
Proust, Marcel
Public health
Chadwick and
cities and
information networks
institutions, future of
statistics, Farr and
Public Health Act of 1848
Public infrastructure engineering
Pump
Broad Street. See Broad Street pump
Punch
“Who Shall Decide When Doctors Disagree?”
Pure
Pure-finders
Quack cures
Radcliffe, John Netten
Railway system
Rakers
Reason, and superstition
Recycling of waste
Mayhew and
Regent Street (London)
Registrar-General’s Office
Religion, miasma theory and
Research, medical, in Victorian era
Snow and
Return to Nature: A Defence of the Vegetable Regimen, The (Newton)
Richard the Raker
Richardson, Benjamin Ward
Richardson, James
Rio de Janeiro, Rocinha area
Robinson, James
Rogers, John
Rogers, Richard
Rogers, William
Rome
medieval, building materials for
Rumor, and cholera outbreak
Rural areas
St. Bartholomew’s Hospital
St. James’ Parish, and cholera outbreak
Board of Governors
Vestry Committee
St. James Workhouse
St. Luke’s Church (Berwick Street)
Sanitary conditions
and cholera
Sanitation, Chadwick and
Scavenger classes
in developing countries
in Victorian-era London
Scientific establishment, and waterborne theory
Scientific method, Victorian-era medicine and
Sedgwick’s Principles of Sanitary Science and Public Health
Sewer-hunters
miasma theory and
Sewer system, London
construction of
investigation of
Broad Street
Shadow Cities (Neuwirth)
Shantytown developments
Shelley, Percy
Slingshot water purifier
Small intestine, cholera and
Smell
as disease
Snow and
sense of
in Victorian-era London
Smith, Angus
&nbs
p; Snow, John
and anesthetics
attacks on
and Broad Street outbreak
cause of epidemic
grand experiment
map of
sociological evidence
and cholera
consilient thinking
death of
and Epidemiological Society
Farr and
information resources
The Lancet and
and miasma theory
reasoning style
scientific studies
and water companies
waterborne theory
opponents of
Whitehead and
Social prejudice
and miasma theory
Socioeconomic element in cholera outbreak
Sociologist, Snow as
Soho (London district)
cholera epidemic
newspapers and
in Victorian era
See also Broad Street (Soho); Golden Square (Soho); London; specific sites
Soho Field
Soho Square
Soil fertility, waste recycling and
South America, cholera outbreaks
South London Water Works
Southwark and Vauxhall (S&V) water company
Sproat, William
Squatter cities
Standage, Tom
Statistics of public health, Farr and
Street-level knowledge, Snow’s map and
Subcultures, in cities
Suburbs
Suicide bombers
Superstition
Surgeons, in nineteenth-century London
Surgery, in Victorian era
Surrey building (Horsleydown), cholera outbreak
Sutherland, John
Sydenham, Thomas
Tanning of leather
Tea
Technology
of density
and urbanization
Telecommuting
Terrorism
biological
9/11 attack
population density and
Thames River
pollution of
sewer system and
Theories, incorrect, support of
“Theses on the Philosophy of History” (Benjamin)
Third World, population control
Threats, intolerable
311 service, New York City
Times, The (London). See London Times
Toilets and water closets
Toshers
Towns
medieval, waste recycling in
Transgenic shifts
Tropical rain forests
Truscott’s Court (Horsleydown)
Tufte, Edward
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Visual Explanations
Twin Towers, population density
Underclass, in Victorian-era London
United Nations, Global Report on Human Settlements
University College Hospital (London)
Unsanitary conditions, deaths from
Urban density. See Population density
Urban life
in developing world
flow of ideas
See also Cities; Inner-city air, as disease source; Inner-city life, in Victorian era; Towns
Urban mapping systems
Urbanism, Broad Street cholera outbreak and
Urbanization
benefits of
Industrial Revolution and
pandemics and
threats of
Vaccines, production of
Vegetarian, Snow as
Vestry Committee. See St. James’ Parish, and cholera outbreak
Vibrio cholerae (cholera bacterium)
battle against
in Broad Street well
“El Tor” strain
transmission route
Victoria, Queen of England
childbirth
Victorian novels, and children
Viral phages (cholera)
Viruses
evolution of
genetic swaps
Visual Display of Quantitative Information, The (Tufte)
Visual Explanations (Tufte)
Voronoi diagrams
Wages of night-soil men
Wagner, Richard
Waldor, Matthew K.
Warfare, asymmetric. See Asymmetric warfare
Warren, John Collins
Waste disposal
London
in Victorian era
recycling
Waste management
Water
clean
search for
contaminated
as cure for cholera
Water closets
Water purifiers
Water supply
and air quality
London
Board of Health and
Broad Street
sanitary
Waterborne theory of cholera spread
acceptance of
Board of Health and
evidence for
experiment
Farr and
official endorsement
supporters
Vestry Committee and
Whitehead and
Weather, and disease, theories
Weekly Returns of Birth and Deaths (Farr)
and “Great Stink”
and waterborne theory
Westminster Hospital
Westminster Medical Society
Whewell, William
Whitehead, Henry
The Cholera in Berwick Street
and cholera outbreak
investigation of
local knowledge
and Snow
and theories of cholera spread
waterborne theory
Wilson, E. O.
Wordsworth, William
Workhouses, in Victorian era
World Trade Center, population density
World Wide Web, and information
Yahoo!
York (surveyor)
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
Courtesy Illustrated London News.
Courtesy General Research Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations.
Courtesy Ralph R. Frerichs, UCLA Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow.html.