Death by Water: John Snow and Cholera in Victorian Soho

12 June 2011, 11.00 - 13.00


A trail of medical detective work following John Snow, a GP in the 1840s, on his quest to uncover the root of Soho’s cholera outbreak. Uncover plots to clean up London’s graveyards. Visit a Victorian hospital for venereal disease, the lodgings of Karl Marx and Casanova, an Enlightenment anatomy school, and Broad Street Pump (where the modern study of disease in populations began).

Tour leader: Richard Barnett, author of 'Medical London'.


This event is FREE.

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