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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
Feb 08, 2017LovieBooker rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
This was an interesting, yet difficult, book to read. The history nerd in me knew a little about the Broad Street Pump calamity in Victorian England. I also knew about Snow's work inn finding the source of the cholera epidemic of 1854, but not about the role played by Reverend Whitehead. I think I would have enjoyed it more had Johnson just stuck with just the history and not spent so much time on a soapbox about the social indifference to London's poorer inhabitants.