Legacy and Honors
- A plaque commemorates Snow and his 1854 study in the place of the water pump on Broad Street (now Broadwick Street). It shows a water pump with its handle removed. The spot where the pump stood is covered with red granite.
- A public house nearby was named "The John Snow" in his honor.
- His grave in Brompton Cemetery, London, is marked by a funerary monument.
- In York, a blue plaque commemorates Snow on the west end of the Park Inn, a hotel in North Street.
- Snow was named as one of the heraldic supporters of the Royal College of Anaesthetists.
- 2003, a poll of British doctors ranked Snow as the greatest physician of all time.
- 2001, John Snow College, founded on the University of Durham's Queen's Campus in Stockton-on-Tees, was named in his honor.
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