Female tuberculosis mortality—England & Wales—Haviland choropleth map 1875
£1,120
SKU: P-7-028447
The Geographical Distribution of Phthisis [Tuberculosis] (in Females) in England & Wales
An exceptionally early national choropleth of female phthisis mortality—pulmonary tuberculosis or “consumption”—published seven years before Robert Koch identified the tubercle bacillus. Using deaths registered during 1851–60, Haviland classifies all 623 registration districts of England and Wales into six bands, with an enlarged London inset. His physiological colours made the map analytical: arterial red denoted low mortality and venous blue high mortality. At nearly a metre wide, it transformed statistics for one of the nineteenth century’s greatest causes of death into a pattern for comparison with terrain, climate and settlement. Haviland treated geographical correlations as evidence that environment caused phthisis; the method was pioneering, but its causal interpretation was superseded by bacteriology and inadequately accounted for social conditions or person-to-person infection. The complete work survives at King’s College London and in the Royal Collection. The sheet is scarce in commerce: no separately catalogued market example or auction record has been traced.
Size 97 x 75 cm | 38.0 x 29.5 inches
Date Published: 1875
Type: Large engraved and coloured folding medical-statistical choropleth map
Author: Haviland, Alfred
Publication: Haviland’s Geographical Distribution of Disease
Condition: Good |
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