All records for more than 205,000 burials from 1840 to 1997 at Brompton Cemetery are now on the database. This week we uploaded the final set of records from Brompton Cemetery. Amongst the new data on Deceased Online are the burial details of some of the most significant and celebrated Londoners of the nineteenth century. This year is the bicententary of the birth of John Snow (1813-1858) , pioneer epidemiologist and the man who discovered the causal link between contaminated water and cholera. He was also a practising physician, who pioneered anaesthetic methods and administered chloroform to Queen Victoria during the births of Beatrice and Leopold. Originally from York, Snow was the son of an unskilled labourer. Through hard work and the support of the ragged schools, he qualified as a physician at medical school in London in 1843 and began working in Soho. At the time it was popularly believed that cholera was caught from miasma, or ‘bad air’. In 1849, ...