This dataset contains housing blocks, in the forms of polygons, which aggregate cholera deaths in the vicinity of the Broad Street pump. Originally, 39 observations were provided by Wilson (2011), with an ID for the polygons, a death count and the death density (in terms of population). An additional observation (ID=1) was created to account for a particular building where John Snow found that people did not drink water from the Broad Street pump, which is the workhouse selected.
The documentation is available at:
The Geoda script is available at:
Overview of data
| Variable | Description |
|---|---|
| ID | Unique ID |
| deaths | Number of deaths per polygon |
| deathdens | Number of deaths per polygon divided by population |
References
Wilson, R (2011). John Snow’s Cholera data in more formats. http://blog.rtwilson.com/john-snows-cholera-data-in-more-formats/. Reprojected data can also be downloaded from Dani Arribas-Bel’s ‘reproducible john snow’ BitBucket repository at https://bitbucket.org/darribas/reproducible_john_snow/src/master/.
Prepared by Center for Spatial Data Science. Last updated February 1, 2021. Data provided “as is,” no warranties.