John Snow
- Plaque text
- Dr John Snow (1813-1858) Founding father of Epidemiology. In 1854 his research linked deaths to the water pump near this site and thus determined that cholera is a water borne disease
- Scheme
- Royal Society of Chemistry
- Location
- Broadwick Street, London
This plaque is close to the site of the water pump that John Snow identified as being instrumental in the cholera outbreak in London in the 1850s.