Sackville Street, London
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Sackville Street is a street in the City of Westminster which today is mainly composed of offices and the rears of retail premises, but once was the home to several important medical figures.
Sackville Street, looking south towards Piccadilly
The southern end of Sackville Street where it connects with Piccadilly
A severe outbreak of cholera occurred in 1854 near Broad Street and Golden Square in Soho, London, England, during the worldwide 1846–1860 cholera pandemic. The outbreak, which killed 616 people, is b
Sackville Street, London
…from 1852 to his death in 1858. Snow is considered one of the fathers of modern epidemiology, in part because of his work in tracing the source of a cholera outbreak in Soho, London, in 1854. James Yearsley (1805–1869), aural surgeon, once had a clinic at 32 Sackville Street. A green plaque was unveiled on 27 May 1994 which reads "Westminster…
A replica pump commemorating the outbreak and John Snow's investigation of it
Rev. Henry Whitehead
The pub, close by to the new location of the pump, named after John Snow
A wider image of the pub named after John Snow with the pump centre-right