The Modern Plague Of London
In 1886 the National Temperance Publication Depot published a map of London pubs "as specified inwards the London Directory". The Modern Plague of London map shows the location of London pubs every bit listed inwards the directory. To exercise the map the National Temperance Publication Depot but added a carmine point for every London pub to a impress of Bacon's Map of London & Suburbs.
The map owes an obvious debt to John Snow's map of cholera victims inwards Soho during the 1854 cholera outbreak. By plotting the homes of cholera victims on a map Snow was able to position a H2O see inwards Broad Street every bit the displace of all the cases of cholera. Snow's map essentially proved that cholera was spread past times contaminated H2O too disproved the prevailing miasma theory, which believed that diseases similar cholera were caused past times bad air.
By plotting all of the pubs inwards London the National Temperance Publication Depot presumably intended to position all the contaminated sources of alcoholism inwards London. Unfortunately for the temperance displace the map wasn't especially successful inwards achieving its aim of eradicating the modern plague of London. Previous attempts to bound Londoner's access to their pubs had proven spectacularly unsuccessful. For illustration the Sale of Beer Act inwards 1854, which restricted Dominicus opening hours, had to live on repealed afterward widespread rioting. It was unlikely hence that a uncomplicated map of London pubs was going to live on plenty to halt people drinking alcohol inwards London.
However the map is real successful inwards visualizing the huge issue of pubs inwards Victorian London. The highest resolution icon of the map that I tin grade the axe detect online was published past times the Telegraph (accompanying this article). If yous examine the map yous tin grade the axe detect lots of streets where every other edifice appears to live on a world house. If yous already believed that alcohol was a scourge on the full general population hence the National Temperance Publication Depot's map of the Modern Plague of London would live on real probable to confirm your beliefs most the immense dangers of alcohol to the population of London.