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 practise the map the National Temperance Publication Depot merely added a carmine 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 seat a H2O catch inwards Broad Street equally the movement of all the cases of cholera. Snow's map essentially proved that cholera was spread past times contaminated H2O as well as disproved the prevailing miasma theory, which believed that diseases similar cholera were caused past times bad air.
By plotting all of the pubs inwards London the National Temperance Publication Depot presumably intended to seat all the contaminated sources of alcoholism inwards London. Unfortunately for the temperance movement 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 For illustration the Sale of Beer Act inwards 1854, which restricted Lord's Day opening hours, had to live on repealed later widespread rioting. It was unlikely as well as thus that a uncomplicated map of London pubs was going to live on plenty to halt people drinking alcohol inwards London.
However the map is real successful inwards visualizing the huge issue of pubs inwards Victorian London. The highest resolution ikon of the map that I tin plough over the axe discovery online was published past times the Telegraph (accompanying this article). If you lot examine the map you lot tin plough over the axe discovery lots of streets where every other edifice appears to live on a populace house. If you lot already believed that alcohol was a scourge on the full general population as well as thus the National Temperance Publication Depot's map of the Modern Plague of London would live on real probable to confirm your beliefs virtually the immense dangers of alcohol to the population of London.
