{"product_id":"map-of-oxford-to-illustrate-dr-acland-s-memoir-on-cholera-undrained-areas-1856-p-8-007030","title":"Map of Oxford to illustrate Dr. Acland's Memoir on Cholera —undrained areas 1856","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'Map of Oxford, to illustrate Dr. Acland's Memoir on Cholera in Oxford in 1854, showing the localities in which cholera \u0026amp; choleraic diarrhœa occurred in 1854, and cholera in 1832 \u0026amp; 1849; together with the parts of the town described as unhealthy... the parts remedied; the districts still undrained; the parts of the river still contaminated by sewers in 1855; and the contour levels'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"An ambitious disease map issued with Henry Wentworth Acland’s Memoir on the Cholera at Oxford (1856). Physician to the Radcliffe Infirmary and Regius Professor, Acland organised Oxford’s response to the 1854 epidemic and collated practitioners’ returns. Cartographically, it is broader and more ambitious than John Snow’s Broad Street map. Snow’s Soho plan supported his revolutionary waterborne explanation; Acland mapped Oxford across three epidemics—1832, 1849 and 1854. Coloured symbols plot cholera and choleraic diarrhoea against five-foot contours, undrained districts, flooding, sewer outfalls, polluted rivers, unhealthy localities and sanitary defects, both remedied and neglected. Although Acland attributed the concentration in low-lying districts to elevation and “poisoned air” rather than contaminated water, its geographical reach, temporal depth and environmental detail make this an important achievement in early public-health cartography. The source volume’s half-title is inscribed “F. Symonds Esqr \/ With the Author’s kind regards.” Frederick Symonds was Acland’s Radcliffe colleague, treated Central Ward cases and supplied evidence used in the Memoir. Symonds reportedly nearly died of cholera himself, creating an exceptional association between author, contributor, practitioner and survivor.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53843356221787,"sku":"P-8-007030","price":900.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-8-007030a.jpg?v=1787236464","url":"https:\/\/www.antiquemapsandprints.com\/fr\/products\/map-of-oxford-to-illustrate-dr-acland-s-memoir-on-cholera-undrained-areas-1856-p-8-007030","provider":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}