{"title":"Calcutta cholera mortality map 1892","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"calcutta-kolkata-1892-cholera-deaths-city-disease-epidemiological-dot-map-c1893-p-6-112670","title":"Calcutta\/Kolkata—1892 cholera deaths—city disease\/epidemiological dot map c1893","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'Plan of the town of Calcutta shewing the boundaries of wards according to Municipal Consolidation Act II B.C. of 1888. Red dots indicate cholera deaths for the year 1892'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eEvery red dot on this plan of Calcutta (Kolkata) is a death from cholera in 1892, plotted block by block in the city at the heart of cholera’s endemic home, from which the nineteenth-century pandemics spread. The base map, printed in blue at three inches to the mile, shows the wards and numbered blocks laid down under the Municipal Act of 1888; the dots crowd the congested northern wards and thin out around the Maidan. It was probably issued in 1893 with the annual report of the Health Officer, W. J. Simpson, who in 1894 began testing Waldemar Haffkine’s cholera vaccine in the city. Cholera maps printed in India are rare: a London dealer has offered a smaller map of the same kind for 1887, and we have not traced another example of this 1892 issue in the dealer and auction records searched. With the Yorkshire College, Leeds, blind stamp.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54345085157723,"sku":"P-6-112670","price":500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-6-112670a.jpg?v=1791906555"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.antiquemapsandprints.com\/collections\/calcutta-cholera-mortality-map-1892.oembed","provider":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}