In 1886 the National Temperance Publication Depot published a map of London pubs "as specified inwards the London Directory". The Modern Plague of London map shows the place of London pubs equally listed inwards the directory. To exercise the map the National Temperance Publication Depot only added a reddish point for every London pub to a impress of Bacon's Map of London & Suburbs.
The map owes an obvious debt to John Snow's map of cholera victims inwards Soho during the 1854 cholera outbreak. By plotting the homes of cholera victims on a map Snow was able to set a H2O view inwards Broad Street equally the drive of all the cases of cholera. Snow's map essentially proved that cholera was spread yesteryear contaminated H2O together with disproved the prevailing miasma theory, which believed that diseases similar cholera were caused yesteryear bad air.
By plotting all of the pubs inwards London the National Temperance Publication Depot presumably intended to set all the contaminated sources of alcoholism inwards London. Unfortunately for the temperance motility the map wasn't peculiarly successful inwards achieving its aim of eradicating the modern plague of London. Previous attempts to bound Londoner's access to their pubs had proven spectacularly unsuccessful. For instance the Sale of Beer Act inwards 1854, which restricted Lord's Day opening hours, had to live on repealed afterwards widespread rioting. It was unlikely hence that a uncomplicated map of London pubs was going to live on plenty to halt people drinking alcohol inwards London.
However the map is really successful inwards visualizing the huge issue of pubs inwards Victorian London. The highest resolution picture of the map that I tin rank the axe notice online was published yesteryear the Telegraph (accompanying this article). If y'all examine the map y'all tin rank the axe notice lots of streets where every other edifice appears to live on a populace house. If y'all already believed that alcohol was a scourge on the full general population hence the National Temperance Publication Depot's map of the Modern Plague of London would live on really probable to confirm your beliefs nigh the immense dangers of alcohol to the population of London.
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