AFTERWARD

John Snow died on June 17, 1858, of a stroke brought on by kidney disease, and perhaps by self-experimentation with anesthesia. He was forty-four years old and unmarried.

His theories on the communication of cholera were never fully accepted by the scientific community in his lifetime. But since then, he has been fully credited as being the discoverer of the cause of cholera, and the first modern epidemiologist.

John Snow died at Noon on June 16, 1858 from an attack of apoplexy, now commonly referred to as a stroke or cerebrovascular accident.  The time and date were erroneously listed by B.W. Richardson in his Memoir of Snow's life as 3:00 pm, June 17, 1858. For more information on Snow's death and the monument that sits over his grave in Brompton Cemetery, click here. 

The most quoted historical source on the life of John Snow is the biography Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson, a friend and medical colleague.  In his publication, Richardson noted that Snow  regretted never having married.  Nothing was stated, however, about his personal relationships.  To read Richardson's Memoirs of his friend, click here.