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Devonshire-Exeter-1849

CBTM:
18265
Map Date:
[1849]
Repository reference:
Devon RO [open access]
Historic county:
Devonshire
Town name:
Exeter
Map type:
Health Hazard
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SX921924
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SX 9392
Map title:
'Map of Exeter in 1832 Showing the localities where the Deaths caused by Pestilential Cholera occured in the years 1832, 1833 & 1834'.
Comments on map:
Frontispiece to Thomas Shapter, The history of the cholera in Exeter in 1832, London: Churchill, Exeter: Holden, 1849.
Scale:
1:10,560*
Map-maker:
? Thomas Shapter [author], Risdon, Exeter [lith].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
20.5 x 19.0
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
health hazards: Red overprint indicating deaths in various years.
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Sanitary and utility information:
aqueducts, conduits, incidence of disease, water works, misc: Places where clothes destroyed, druggists, cholera burial grounds, 'Station House', 'House for Convalescents'; incidence of cholera deaths in 1832, 1833 and 1834 [by red overprint]; indication of mortality from cholera for each parish; shafts for water sunk 1832.
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
barracks, town walls
Welfare and charitable:
hospitals, workhouses
Education and academic:
schools
Known copies of map:
Devon RO [open access].
Commons:
shown
Cemeteries:
shown
Ordnance Survey's
1875-6
1:500
1:2500
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