Tag: Health and disease

• Where the asylums were: the rise, fall and afterlife of Britain’s county asylums

  

  I mapped 233 of Britain’s asylums and psychiatric hospitals from Wikipedia. Most were built between 1845 and 1914, almost none closed until the 1980s, and of the closed sites whose fate is known, 66% are now homes.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Britain, buildings, Health and disease, history, Twentieth century, UK, Victorian, Wikipedia

• The plague years: five centuries of plague, mapped year by year

  

  6,848 recorded outbreak years in 1,172 towns, from the Black Death in 1347 to Porto in 1900: how plague spread, kept coming back about every 13 years, and left Europe a century before the Ottoman Mediterranean.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Animated timeline, Early modern, Europe, Health and disease, history, maps, medieval, Plague, population

• Did the Pits Closing Still Show?

  

  196 deep mines were working in Britain at the start of 1984, and 167 had closed by 1994. Forty years on, the pit towns of England and Wales have 2.0 points more adults long-term sick than similar towns, whenever their pit closed.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  Census, Health and disease, history, industry, Persistence test, population, Poverty and wealth, Present day, Twentieth century, UK

• Cholera 1849: low ground, bad water and a long shadow

  

  In 1849 cholera killed 14,007 people in London. I rebuilt William Farr’s elevation law and John Snow’s water evidence from their own tables, mapped every death around the Broad Street pump, and found that the worst-hit districts of 1849 are not the poorest today.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  Britain, cities, Health and disease, history, London, Persistence test, population, Poverty and wealth, Present day, Victorian

• Some facts and stats on Coronavirus: Covid-19

  

  Written in March 2020. The figures are not updated. Unfortunately co-morbidities and age are heavily related to fatality. Using Chinese CCDC/ WHO data released on Feb. 17 based on 72,314 confirmed, suspected, and asymptomatic cases as of Feb. 11, alongside a study of 1099 patients clinical outcomes, it is clear that we must act now to protect…

  Tristan Hotham

  Politics

  Covid-19, Health and disease, population