Map of Boston : showing health districts and undrained and filled land
Item Information
- Title:
- Map of Boston : showing health districts and undrained and filled land
- Description:
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In 1874, the State Board of Health of Massachusetts divided the Commonwealth into “health districts,” areas assigned to physicians tasked with documenting the locations of prevalent diseases. This map denotes these health districts, along with the polluted marshlands and low-lying ground believed to spread diseases such as consumption, cholera, and malaria. If dark, damp, low land promoted illness, health reformers thought, then the opposite must hold true. In the years to come, Bostonians would increasingly seek out “breathing-places”: well-lit, dry, green spaces, where they might take in the fresh air for their health.
- Contributor:
- Heliotype Printing Co
- Date:
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[ca. 1870–1879]
- Format:
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Maps/Atlases
- Location:
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Boston Public Library
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center - Collection (local):
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Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
- Subjects:
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Public health--Massachusetts--Boston--Maps
Boston (Mass.)--Maps
- Places:
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MassachusettsSuffolk (county)Boston
- Extent:
- 1 map : col. ; 60 x 52 cm.
- Terms of Use:
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No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
- Publisher:
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Boston, Mass :
Heliotype
- Scale:
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Scale not given
- Language:
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English
- Notes:
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Relief shown by hachures.
Distance measured radially from City Hall.
- Notes (exhibitions):
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Exhibited: "Breathing Room: Mapping Boston's Green Spaces" organized by the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library, 2018.
- Identifier:
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06_01_001170
- Call #:
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G3764.B6 1870 .M37