{"product_id":"female-cancer-mortality-england-wales-alfred-haviland-choropleth-map-1875-p-7-028446","title":"Female cancer mortality—England \u0026 Wales—Alfred Haviland choropleth map 1875","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'The Geographical Distribution of Cancer (in Females) in England \u0026amp; Wales'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe principal national map in what modern scholarship identifies as the first cancer atlas. Haviland plots female cancer mortality during 1851–60 across all 623 registration districts of England and Wales, with an enlarged London inset. His six-class choropleth made colour analytical rather than decorative: arterial red marked mortality below average and venous blue mortality above it. By mapping cancer nationally, rather than treating it as an individual affliction, Haviland helped establish it as a population-level public-health problem whose geographical pattern could be investigated. He associated high mortality with clay soils, flooding and river valleys, including Thames basin, but mistook geographical correlation for environmental causation; modern oncology does not support those conclusions. The complete work survives at King’s College London and in the Royal Collection; the King’s copy is digitised through Wellcome Collection. This 1875 sheet is scarce in commerce: no separately catalogued market example or auction record has been traced.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53843355959643,"sku":"P-7-028446","price":1360.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-7-028446a.jpg?v=1787236463","url":"https:\/\/www.antiquemapsandprints.com\/products\/female-cancer-mortality-england-wales-alfred-haviland-choropleth-map-1875-p-7-028446","provider":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}