Map of Bethnal Green Parish, Shewing the Mortality from four classes of Disease in certain localities during the year, ended 31st Decr., 1838, distinguishing the Houses occupied by Weavers & Labourers, & Tradesmen.
- Title:
- Map of Bethnal Green Parish, Shewing the Mortality from four classes of Disease in certain localities during the year, ended 31st Decr., 1838, distinguishing the Houses occupied by Weavers & Labourers, & Tradesmen.
- Alternate Title:
- Map of Bethnal Green Parish, Shewing the Mortality from four classes of Disease
- Collection:
- Persuasive Maps: PJ Mode Collection
- Creator:
- Chadwick, Edwin
- Other Creators:
- Standidge & Co. (lithographer)
- Date:
- 1842
- Posted Date:
- 2017-04-14
- ID Number:
- 2167.02
- Collection Number:
- 8548
- File Name:
- PJM_2167_02.jpg
- Style/Period:
- 1800 - 1869
- Subject:
- Disaster/Health/Environment
Poverty/Prostitution/Crime - Measurement:
- 32 x 40 (centimeters, height x width)
- Notes:
- This map of Bethnal Green, and the companion map of Leeds (ID #2167.01), are at the heart of Edwin Chadwick's landmark study demonstrating the correlation between poverty and disease, "Report on the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population of Great Britain." Delaney 2012, 125-28."I have appended the copy of a map of Bethnal Green, made with the view of showing the proportions in which the mortality from epidemic diseases and diseases affected by localities, fell on different classes of tenements during the same year. The localities in which the marks of death (x) are most crowded are the poorest and the worst of the district; where the marks are few and widely spread, the houses and streets, and the whole condition of the population, is better." Chadwick, p. 160.
Chadwick's remarkable work contained detailed documentation and facts not only regarding the problems, but explicit regulatory, legislative and engineering proposals for reform, with specific details, costs and benefits. "As a piece of pure legislative and social protest rhetoric," Chadwick's Report was "superb," "a turning point in sanitary reform." It "awakened middle-class and upper-class sensibilities to the ghastly environment of Britain's urban poor" and "appealed to their humanitarian instincts to make an investment in cleaning up the cities and thus improve the sanitary and economic condition of the laboring poor." Williamson 1990, 281.
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- Chadwick, Edwin. 1842. "Report on the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population of Great Britain." In Report to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an Inquiry into the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain. London: W. Clowes and Sons.
- Cite As:
- P.J. Mode collection of persuasive cartography, #8548. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Archival Collection:
- P.J. Mode collection of persuasive cartography
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- For important information about copyright and use, see http://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/copyright.