Caption
Chart Indicating the March of Cholera in 1865
Note: the chart “actually maps the pandemic’s diffusion from 1865 into the 1870s” (Koch, p. 160).
Summary
“From the pandemic’s origin in India, it moves first by sea routes and then over land into Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and finally to Britain, from which it travels to Canada and the United States.” (Koch, p. 160)
Source
This “English Government Map” was included in the U.S. Congressional report by J.M. Woodworth (1875).
The image was scanned from Fig 7.1 in Koch (2005).
Copyright status
The two-dimensional work of art depicted in this image is in the public domain in the United States and in those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years. This photograph of the work is also in the public domain in the United States (see Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp.).
References
Woodworth, J.M. (1875) “The cholera epidemic of 1873 in the United States.
House of Representatives. 43d Cong. 2d Session, House Ex. Doc. No. 95
(University of British Columbia Library).
Koch, Tom (2005). Cartographies of Disease. ESRI Press, Redlands, California.
Collection
 Transmission Routes of Cholera (1817-1831) |
 The Progress of the Spasmodic Cholera, 1832 |
 United States Cholera Route – Epidemic of 1832 |
 Broad Street Outbreak of Cholera, London, 1854 |
 The Geographical Distribution of Health and Disease, 1856 |
 The March of Cholera in 1865 |
 The Diffusion of Cholera in the United States in 1866 |
 Diffusion of Cholera in Eastern Africa, 1864-1871 |
 Cholera Diffusion in Zanzibar c. 1869 |
 Historical cholera pathways in 1817-1823 and 1863-1869 |
 Routes of Asiatic Cholera (1885) |
 Network of cholera diffusion in India, c1931-1953 |
 Cholera, 2000-2001 |
 Cholera, 2003 |