A London physician by the name of John Snow mapped out the spread of a cholera outbreak in the city 150 years ago. Realizing that a common factor among the victims was use of a particular communal ...

John Snow is often called the founder of epidemiology, the study of health in populations. He is best known for his work on tracking the spread of cholera during an epidemic in London in 1854. It ...

Snow compiled data on the two sets of London households and found that during an 1854 epidemic there were 315 deaths from cholera per 10,000 homes among those supplied by Southwark-Vauxhall but ...

THE life of a York-born physician will be celebrated with a special event from the University of York next month.