A review by xokarebear
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson
3.0
Informative. A bit dry at times - I found myself having a hard time concentrating in certain sections because it was soooo detailed. Also will not get over this:
Page 85:
At the height of a nineteenth-century cholera outbreak, a thousand Londoners would often die of the disease in a matter of weeks -out of a population that was a quarter the size of modern New York.
Page 87:
During the epidemics of the late 1840s and the 1850s, a thousand Londoners would typically die of cholera in a matter of weeks- in a city a quarter the size of present-day New York--and the deaths would barely warrant a headline.
Like was this on purpose? Did the editor give up that day? Def upset me more than it should’ve lol
Page 85:
At the height of a nineteenth-century cholera outbreak, a thousand Londoners would often die of the disease in a matter of weeks -out of a population that was a quarter the size of modern New York.
Page 87:
During the epidemics of the late 1840s and the 1850s, a thousand Londoners would typically die of cholera in a matter of weeks- in a city a quarter the size of present-day New York--and the deaths would barely warrant a headline.
Like was this on purpose? Did the editor give up that day? Def upset me more than it should’ve lol