In this article, Brody et al. discuss the legend of John Snow and his use of the spot map to "predict" cholera and track its spread while solving the cause of it. However, John Snow's map, which he first made in December 1854, was incorrect in some ways, and the "government" actually had a more accurate and detailed map. This article also discusses Edmund Cooper's map which he made before Snow. Cooper was an engineer for the Metropolitan Commission of Sewers and was the first to make a map of the outbreak.
Brody, H., Rip, M. R., Vinten-Johansen, P., Paneth, N., & Rachman, S. (2000). Map-making and myth-making in Broad Street: the London cholera epidemic, 1854. The Lancet, 356(9223), 64-68.
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Brody, H., Rip, M. R., Vinten-Johansen, P., Paneth, N., & Rachman, S. (2000). Map-making and myth-making in Broad Street: the London cholera epidemic, 1854. The Lancet, 356(9223), 64-68.
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