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Edwin Chadwik's The Ghost Map

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The Ghost map was a well put together book that shed light on a past problem that has changed many things about the way we live our lives today. Without the contributions of John Snow and Edwin Chadwik it might have taken many more years to figure out how this epidemic was spreading. In addition, many more people would have died. Because I am a very visual person the hardest part of reading The Ghost Map was while reading it, I visualized how it may have looked and smelled in London during this time period and it was not very pleasant. There were a few times I had to put the book down for a while and think about trees and birds to get the idea of London in the 1800’s out of my head.

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