67-455: Lord John was a British men's fashion retailer, which opened its first store at 43 Carnaby Street , London, at the corner with Ganton Street , in 1963. The first Lord John boutique was opened by the brothers Warren , Harold and David Gold in Carnaby Street in 1963, and the choice of name led to litigation from John Stephen who already owned several fashion shops in the street. In 1967,
134-489: A 'morbid matter' which, passing from one patient in his evacuations, is accidentally swallowed by other persons as a pollution of food or water; that an increase of the swallowed germ of the disease takes place in the interior of the stomach and bowels, giving rise to the essential actions of cholera, as at first a local derangement; and that 'the morbid matter of cholera having the property of reproducing its own kind must necessarily have some sort of structure, most likely that of
201-460: A cell. Even though Simon understood Snow's theory, he questioned its relation to the cause of cholera. On 31 August 1854, after several other outbreaks had occurred elsewhere in the city, a major outbreak of cholera occurred in Soho. Snow later called it "the most terrible outbreak of cholera which ever occurred in this kingdom." Over the next three days, 127 people on or near Broad Street died. During
268-454: A daily allowance of beer, they did not consume water from the nearby well. During the brewing process, the wort (or un-fermented beer) is boiled in part so that hops can be added. This step killed the cholera bacteria in the water they had used to brew with, making it safe to drink. Snow showed that the Southwark and Vauxhall Waterworks Company was taking water from sewage-polluted sections of
335-443: A few days in that town, where the water was known to be clean, and there had been no previous outbreaks of cholera. Snow was informed that the water had recently turned impure. Residents were forced to let the water run for a while before using it, in order to let the sudsy, sewer-like water run until it was clear. Snow, finding that the water the residents were using was not different from the usual water from their pump, determined that
402-524: A global fashion destination began with Bill 'Vince' Green, a male physique photographer. In 1954 he opened a small clothing boutique, Vince, in adjoining Newburgh Street, to capitalise on the homosexual body-building community that congregated around the Marshall Street baths. Those who modelled for the Vince catalogue and advertisements, and boosted its popularity, were the then barely-known Sean Connery and
469-699: A hit song of the same name. A song by The Jam , "Carnaby Street," was written by bassist Bruce Foxton . It was the B-side of single " All Around the World ." Carnaby Street the Musical opened in 2013. The show is set in the 1960s. 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak The Broad Street cholera outbreak (or Golden Square outbreak ) was a severe outbreak of cholera that occurred in 1854 near Broad Street (now Broadwick Street ) in Soho , London , England , and occurred during
536-470: A look for young men which was wildly exuberant, dashing and fun." According to James Gardiner, who at one stage made ties for the Vince boutique, at this period Carnaby Street "was essentially a gay thing...The clothes, including pink shirts and skin-tight white pants, were designed to appeal to gay men, but soon went mainstream." Stephen was followed by other men's fashion retailers, including Gear, Mates and Ravel. In 1966, Harry Fox and Henry Moss opened
603-469: A noxious form of "bad air". The germ theory was not established at this point ( Louis Pasteur did not propose it until 1861). Snow did not understand the mechanism by which disease was transmitted, but the evidence led him to believe that it was not due to breathing foul air. Based on the pattern of illness among residents, Snow hypothesized that cholera was spread by an agent in contaminated water. He first published his theory in 1849, in an essay titled "On
670-413: A poison already present in the subject's bloodstream. Popular medical practices, such as bloodletting, could not be effective in such a case. Snow also argued that cholera was not a product of Miasma. "There was nothing in the air to account for the spread of cholera". According to Snow, cholera was spread by persons ingesting a substance, not through atmospheric transmittal. The Reverend Henry Whitehead
737-564: Is Oxford Circus . Carnaby Street derives its name from Karnaby House, which was built in 1683 to the east. The origin of the name is unknown. The street was probably laid out in 1685 or 1686. First appearing in the ratebooks in 1687, it was almost completely built up by 1690 with small houses. A market was developed in the 1820s. In his novel, Sybil (1845), Benjamin Disraeli refers to "a carcase-butcher famous in Carnaby-market". This area
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#1732848868525804-435: Is restricted between 11 am and 8 pm. A comparison of pedestrian traffic before and after the change revealed that there had been a 30% increase in the number of pedestrians entering the area. In early 2010, a campaign was commenced for the pedestrianisation in the adjacent area of Soho . Westminster City Council erected two green plaques , one at 1 Carnaby Street, dedicated to fashion entrepreneur John Stephen , who began
871-470: Is known for his influence on public health, which arose after his studies of the cholera epidemic. In attempting to figure out who was receiving impure water in each neighbourhood, what is now known as a double-blind experiment fell right into his lap. He describes the conditions of the situation in his essays: In many cases a single house has a supply different from that on either side. Each company supplies both rich and poor, both large houses and small; there
938-419: Is no difference in the condition or occupation of the persons receiving the water of the different companies...As there is no difference whatever either in the houses or the people receiving the supply of the two Water Companies, or in any of the physical conditions with which they are surrounded, it is obvious that no experiment could have been devised which would more thoroughly test the effect of water supply on
1005-412: Is notable for a cholera outbreak in 1854 that led to an early application of fundamental epidemiological principles to resolve the crisis. John Snow , the physician who recognised the cases were concentrated near a pump on Broad Street (later renamed Broadwick Street ), communicated the finding on a topographical display. This led to the pump being locked, after which the reduction in cases of cholera
1072-467: Is now known as a Voronoi diagram . He mapped the locations of individual water pumps and generated cells which represented all the points on his map which were closest to each pump. The section of Snow's map representing areas in the city where the closest available source of water was the Broad Street pump included the highest incidence of cholera cases. Snow also performed a statistical comparison between
1139-443: Is simply entitled Carnaby Street and was written by Tom Salter in 1970. In 1966 Lady Jane , the first ladies' fashion boutique opened, creating a public sensation when they had models getting dressed in the window, bringing Carnaby Street to a standstill. This typified the relaxed sexual attitude the era brought about. Carnaby Street was satirised by The Kinks in their 1966 hit, " Dedicated Follower of Fashion ," which contains
1206-419: The 1846–1860 cholera pandemic happening worldwide. This outbreak, which killed 616 people, is best known for the physician John Snow 's study of its causes and his hypothesis that germ-contaminated water was the source of cholera, rather than particles in the air (referred to as " miasma "). This discovery came to influence public health and the construction of improved sanitation facilities beginning in
1273-610: The Alan Tew orchestra, and was also seen in the 1969 horror film The Haunted House of Horror . Lord John had eight shops by 1970, and grew to about 30 in the early 1970s, before being acquired by the retail group Raybeck . The company sponsored a chess tournament, the Lord John Cup, in 1977. In 1983 there was an industrial dispute at the Lady at Lord John branch in Liverpool. Audrey White ,
1340-531: The Southwark and Vauxhall Waterworks Company , and a waterworks at Seething Wells (owned by the Lambeth Waterworks Company ) that was further upriver and hence had cleaner water; he showed that houses supplied by the former had a cholera mortality rate 14 times that of those supplied by the latter. Regarding the decline in cases related to the Broad Street pump, Snow said: It will be observed that
1407-480: The St James parish authorities to disable the well pump by removing its handle. Although this action has been popularly reported as ending the outbreak, the epidemic may have already been in rapid decline, as explained by Snow: There is no doubt that the mortality was much diminished, as I said before, by the flight of the population, which commenced soon after the outbreak; but the attacks had so far diminished before
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#17328488685251474-619: The mod , hippie and peacock revolution styles. Many independent fashion designers, such as Mary Quant , Marion Foale and Sally Tuffin , Lord John, Merc , Take Six, and Irvine Sellars had premises in the street, and various underground music bars, such as the Roaring Twenties, opened in the surrounding streets. Bands such as the Small Faces , the Who and the Rolling Stones appeared in
1541-473: The 15 April 1966 publication of Time magazine 's cover story that extolled this street's role: Perhaps nothing illustrates the new swinging London better than narrow, three-block-long Carnaby Street, which is crammed with a cluster of the 'gear' boutiques where the girls and boys buy each other clothing... In October 1973, the Greater London Council pedestrianised the street. Vehicular access
1608-485: The 1854 epidemic to miasma. Dr Edwin Lankester was a physician on the local research conglomerate that studied the 1854 Broad Street Cholera Epidemic. In 1866, Lankester wrote about Snow's conclusion that the pump itself was the cause of the cholera outbreak. He agreed with Snow at the time; however, his opinion, like Snow's, was not publicly supported. Lankester subsequently closed the pump due to Snow's theory and data on
1675-485: The Broad Street outbreak, as he noted that he hesitated to come to a conclusion based on a population that had predominantly fled the neighbourhood and redistributed itself. He feared throwing off results of the study. From a mathematics perspective, John Snow's innovation was focusing on death rates in areas served by two water companies which drew water from the River Thames, rather than basing it on data from victims of
1742-486: The Broad Street pump (which drew water from a well). Snow's work also led to a far greater health and safety impact than the removal of the Broad Street pump handle. Deactivating the pump "hardly made a dent in the citywide cholera epidemic, which went on to claim nearly 3,000 lives". Snow was sceptical of the prevailing miasma theory , which held that diseases such as cholera or the Black Death were caused by pollution or
1809-450: The Broad Street pump handle. They had responded only to the urgent threat posed to the population, and afterwards they rejected Snow's theory. To accept his proposal would have meant indirectly accepting the oral-faecal method of transmission of disease, which was too unpleasant for most of the public to contemplate. The Broad Street outbreak was an effect rather than a cause of the epidemic. Snow's conclusions were not predominantly based on
1876-555: The Mod fashion revolution, and another at 52/55 Carnaby Street, dedicated to the Mod pop group the Small Faces and their manager, Don Arden . To celebrate the memory of Freddie Mercury after the release of Bohemian Rhapsody , the Carnaby Street arch got a rework with Queen's logo being put up until early 2019. Despite John Stephen closing his final business in 1975 (he died in 2004 aged 70) and
1943-551: The Mode of Communication of Cholera". In 1855 he published a second edition, including a more elaborate investigation of the effect of the water supply in the 1854 Soho outbreak. The cholera epidemic of 1849–1854 was also related to the water supplied by companies in London at the time. The main players were the Southwark and Vauxhall Waterworks Company , and the Lambeth Waterworks Company . Both companies provided water to their customers that
2010-567: The Thames Other companies, such as the New River Company and Chelsea Waterworks Company , were observed to have better filtered water; few deaths occurred in the neighbourhoods which they supplied. These two companies not only obtained their water from cleaner sources than the Thames, but they filtered the water and treated it until there were no obvious contaminants. As mentioned above, Snow
2077-507: The Thames and delivering it to homes, resulting in an increased incidence of cholera among its customers. Snow's study is part of the history of public health and health geography . It is regarded as the founding event of epidemiology . In Snow's own words: On proceeding to the spot, I found that nearly all the deaths had taken place within a short distance of the [Broad Street] pump. There were only ten deaths in houses situated decidedly nearer to another street-pump. In five of these cases
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2144-481: The air and infect individuals, and thus cause cholera. Dr William Farr , the commissioner for the 1851 London census and a member of the General Register's Office, believed that miasma arose from the soil surrounding the River Thames. It contained decaying organic matter which contained miasmatic particles and was released into the London air. Miasma theorists believed in "cleansing and scouring, rather than through
2211-596: The area, to work (at the legendary Marquee Club round the corner in Wardour Street ), to shop and to socialise, so it became one of the coolest destinations associated with 1960s Swinging London . The first Cranks restaurant was opened at 22 Carnaby Street in 1961 by David and Kay Canter and Daphne Swann. Cranks grew into a chain and has been seen as a major factor in the spread of vegetarianism in recent decades The Carnaby Street contingent of Swinging London stormed into North American and international awareness with
2278-540: The causes of cholera in the human body: miasma theory and germ theory. The London medical community debated between these causes for the persistent cholera outbreaks in the city. The cholera-causing bacterium Vibrio cholerae was isolated in 1854, but the finding did not become well known and accepted until decades later. Miasma theorists concluded that cholera was caused by particles in the air, or "miasmata", which arose from decomposing matter or other dirty organic sources. "Miasma" particles were thought to travel through
2345-475: The company backed down and White was reinstated. The TUC credit this strike as playing a significant part in the campaign for workplace equality legislation such as the Employment Equality (Sex Discrimination) Regulations 2005 . The film, Business as Usual featured Glenda Jackson playing the role of Audrey White, who was credited as co-writing the film with Lezli-An Barrett. It was sold to Next in
2412-469: The deaths either very much diminished, or ceased altogether, at every point where it becomes decidedly nearer to send to another pump than to the one in Broad street. It may also be noticed that the deaths are most numerous near to the pump where the water could be more readily obtained. There was one significant anomaly—none of the workers in the nearby Broad Street brewery contracted cholera. As they were given
2479-467: The deceased persons used to drink the pump-water from Broad Street, either constantly or occasionally ... The result of the inquiry then was, that there had been no particular outbreak or prevalence of cholera in this part of London except among the persons who were in the habit of drinking the water of the above-mentioned pump-well. I had an interview with the Board of Guardians of St. James's parish, on
2546-461: The evening of Thursday, the 7th September, and represented the above circumstances to them. In consequence of what I said, the handle of the pump was removed on the following day. It was discovered later that this public well had been dug 3 feet (0.9 m) from an old cesspit that had begun to leak faecal bacteria. Waste water from washing nappies , used by a baby who had contracted cholera from another source, drained into this cesspit. Its opening
2613-464: The families of the deceased persons informed me that they always sent to the pump in Broad Street, as they preferred the water to that of the pumps which were nearer. In three other cases, the deceased were children who went to school near the pump in Broad Street ;... With regard to the deaths occurring in the locality belonging to the pump, there were 61 instances in which I was informed that
2680-517: The first women's fashion boutique, Lady Jane , and later rented Foubert's Place to I Was Lord Kitchener's Valet , their first outlet in the area. Round the corner in Kingly Street , Tommy Roberts opened his gift shop, Kleptomania. He moved to Carnaby Street in 1967 and went on to become famous in the King's Road , Chelsea, with his Mr Freedom shop. By the 1960s, Carnaby Street was popular with followers of
2747-401: The gradual movement to novelty shops with appeal to the ever increasing tourist trade, the boutique trade founded in Carnaby Street in 1957 by Stephen is still visible through the many shops of that ilk that still exist in the street today . Although featured in many books about London, the only book published which is exclusively about Carnaby Street and traces the history from the 1600s to 1970
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2814-406: The help of Reverend Henry Whitehead ), Snow identified the source of the outbreak as the public water pump on Broad Street (now Broadwick Street ) at Cambridge Street. Although Snow's chemical and microscope examination of a sample of the water from this Broad Street pump water did not conclusively prove its danger, his facts about the patterns of illness and death among residents in Soho persuaded
2881-547: The hugely popular handsome boxer Billy Walker . To further attract custom, Green hired pretty young men as sales assistants, one of whom was the Glasgow-born John Stephen , later to be known as 'The King Of Carnaby Street'. Stephen opened the boutique His Clothes in 1957 after his shop in Beak Street burned down. As Mary Quant later stated of Stephen, "He made Carnaby Street. He was Carnaby Street. He invented
2948-407: The human body. Cholera did not affect either the circulatory or the nervous system and there was no "poison in the blood...in the consecutive fever...the blood became poisoned from urea getting into the circulation". According to Snow, this "urea" entered the blood through kidney failure. (Acute kidney failure is a complication of cholera.) Therefore, the fever was caused by kidney failure, not by
3015-406: The large influx of people and a lack of proper sanitary services: the London sewer system had not reached Soho. Cowsheds, slaughter houses and grease-boiling dens lined the streets and contributed animal droppings, rotting fluids and other contaminants to the primitive Soho sewer system. Many cellars had cesspools underneath their floorboards, which formed from the sewers and filth seeping in from
3082-462: The line "Everywhere the Carnabetian Army marches on, each one a dedicated follower of fashion." It was mentioned in the 1967 film Smashing Time . One of the songs, "Carnaby Street," features the lyric: "You'll pay for the gear on display to appear on the scene/ It's no good being mean/ They'll have your every bean." In 1969, Peggy March recorded an album called In der Carnaby Street , with
3149-488: The manager of the store, complained of sexual harassment experienced by four members of her staff by an area manager. When senior management tried to sack her, White found that although she had little support amongst other workers at the store, other workers in Liverpool and further afield supported by setting up picket lines outside the store in Liverpool and other company stores in Manchester and Liverpool . After five weeks
3216-767: The mid-1980s, when they became Next stores. 51°30′47″N 0°08′17″W / 51.513°N 0.138°W / 51.513; -0.138 Carnaby Street Carnaby Street is a pedestrianised shopping street in Soho in the City of Westminster , Central London . Close to Oxford Street and Regent Street , it is home to fashion and lifestyle retailers, including many independent fashion boutiques . Streets crossing, or meeting with, Carnaby Street are, from south to north, Beak Street , Broadwick Street , Kingly Court, Ganton Street , Marlborough Court, Lowndes Court, Fouberts Place, Little Marlborough Street and Great Marlborough Street . The nearest London Underground station
3283-408: The mid-19th century. Later, the term " focus of infection " started to be used to describe sites, such as the Broad Street pump, in which conditions are favourable for transmission of an infection. Snow's endeavour to find the cause of the transmission of cholera caused him to unknowingly create a double-blind experiment . In the mid-19th century, Soho in London had a serious problem with filth due to
3350-509: The next week, three quarters of the residents had fled the area. By 10 September, more than 500 people had died and the mortality rate was 12.8 per thousand inhabitants in some parts of the city. By the end of the outbreak, 616 people had died. Many of the victims were taken to the Middlesex Hospital , where their treatment was superintended by Florence Nightingale , who briefly joined the hospital in early September in order to help with
3417-457: The occurrence of vibriones in air samples from various cholera wards and Hassall observed vibriones in water samples. Neither identified vibriones as the cause of cholera. As part of their investigation of the cholera epidemic, the Board of Health sent physicians to examine in detail the conditions of the Golden Square neighbourhood and its inhabitants. The Board of Health ultimately attributed
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#17328488685253484-402: The outbreak must be caused by a leak in the pipes that allowed surrounding sewage and its contaminants to seep in to the water supply. This scenario was similar to that of the Broad Street outbreak. The incoming water was being contaminated by the increasing levels of sewage, coupled with the lack of proper and safe plumbing. After the cholera epidemic had subsided, government officials replaced
3551-451: The outbreak. According to a letter from Elizabeth Gaskell , "She herself [Nightingale] was up night and day from Friday afternoon (Sept. 1) to Sunday afternoon, receiving the poor creatures (chiefly fallen women of that neighbourhood - they had it the worst) who were being constantly brought in - - undressing them - putting on turpentine stupes, et cetera, doing it herself to as many as she could manage". By talking to local residents (with
3618-482: The outside. Since the cesspools were overrunning, the London government decided to dump the waste into the River Thames , contaminating the water supply. London had already suffered from a "series of debilitating cholera outbreaks". These included outbreaks in 1832 and 1849 which killed a total of 14,137 people. Preceding the 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak, physicians and scientists held two competing theories on
3685-466: The pattern of infection, and infection rates dropped significantly. Lankester eventually was named the first medical officer of health for St James's parish in London, the same area where the pump was located. A replica pump was installed in 1992 at the site of the 1854 pump. Every year the John Snow Society holds "Pumphandle Lectures" on subjects of public health. Until August 2015, when the pump
3752-437: The progress of Cholera than this, which circumstances placed ready made before the observer. The experiment too, was on the grandest scale. No fewer than three hundred thousand people of both sexes, of every age and occupation, and of every rank and station, from gentlefolks down to the very poor, were divided into two groups without their choice, and, in most cases, without their knowledge; one group being supplied water containing
3819-546: The purer scientific approach of microbiology". Farr later agreed with Snow's germ theory following Snow's publications. In contrast, the germ theory held that the principal cause of cholera was a germ cell that had not yet been identified. Snow theorised that this unknown germ was transmitted from person to person by individuals ingesting water. John Simon , a pathologist and the lead medical officer for London, labelled Snow's germ theory as "peculiar". Excerpt from John Simon: This doctrine is, that cholera propagates itself by
3886-418: The sewage of London, and amongst it, whatever might have come from the cholera patients, the other group having water quite free from such impurity. Snow went on to study the water contents from each home through a test performed on each sample. In this way, it could be deduced from which supplier the home was receiving their water. He concluded that it was indeed impure water from the big companies that allowed
3953-416: The spread of cholera to progress rapidly. He went on to prove his theory through the observation of prisons in London, finding that cholera ceased in these places only a few days after switching to cleaner water sources. Snow's analysis of cholera and cholera outbreaks extended past the closure of the Broad Street pump. He concluded that cholera was transmitted through and affected the alimentary canal within
4020-431: The store had a three-storey high giant psychedelic mural on the outside of the building, painted by the then largely unknown pop-art collective Doug Binder , Dudley Edwards and David Vaughan (BEV). Lord John was very popular with mods , and regular customers included the pop groups The Small Faces , The Who , and Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones . It appeared on the cover of the 1967 album This Is My Scene by
4087-406: The use of the water was stopped, that it is impossible to decide whether the well still contained the cholera poison in an active state, or whether, from some cause, the water had become free from it. Snow later used a dot map to illustrate how cases of cholera occurred around this pump. Snow's efforts to connect the incidence of cholera with potential geographic sources was based on creating what
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#17328488685254154-414: Was an assistant curate at St. Luke's church in Soho during the 1854 cholera outbreak. A former believer in the miasma theory of disease , Whitehead worked to disprove false theories. He was influenced by Snow's theory that cholera spreads by consumption of water contaminated by human waste. Snow's work, particularly his maps of the Soho area cholera victims, convinced Whitehead that the Broad Street pump
4221-484: Was drawn from the River Thames, which was highly contaminated with visible and invisible products and bacteria. Dr Hassall examined the filtered water and found it contained animal hair, among other foul substances. He made the remark that: It will be observed, that the water of the companies of the Surrey Side of London, viz., the Southwark, Vauxhall, and Lambeth, is by far the worst of all those who take their supply from
4288-612: Was placed in charge of investigating the cholera outbreak. They were to study the atmospheric environment in London; however, they were also to examine samples of water from several water companies in London. The committee found that the most contaminated water supply came from the South London water companies, Southwark and Vauxhall. As part of the Committee for Scientific Inquiries, Richard Dundas Thomson and Arthur Hill Hassall examined what Thomson referred to as "vibriones". Thomson examined
4355-510: Was rapid. In 1934, Amy Ashwood Garvey and Sam Manning opened the Florence Mills Social Club at number 50 , a jazz club that became a gathering place for supporters of Pan-Africanism . Carnaby Street in the early 1950s was a shabby Soho backstreet consisting of "rag trade sweat shops, locksmiths and tailors, and a Central Electricity Board depot practically took up one side of the street." The genesis of Carnaby Street as
4422-411: Was the source of the local infections. Whitehead joined Snow in tracking the contamination to a faulty cesspool and the outbreak's index case (the baby with cholera). Whitehead's work with Snow combined demographic study with scientific observation, setting an important precedent for epidemiology. The Board of Health in London had several committees, of which the Committee for Scientific Inquiries
4489-493: Was under a nearby house that had been rebuilt further away after a fire and a street widening. At the time there were cesspits under most homes. Most families tried to have their raw sewage collected and dumped in the Thames to prevent their cesspit from filling faster than the sewage could decompose into the soil. At the same time, an investigation of cholera transmission was being conducted in Deptford . Around 90 people died within
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