Asthma in Manhattan

 

This map illustrates the amount of people with asthma and the amount of people that have been to the emergency room due to asthma-related reasons. In particular, I want to focus on West Harlem. The map depicts the West Harlem with a fill color ranging from light green to bright yellow, this concludes that there is a medium to high population of people that have been told the have asthma by doctors and other health professionals. Furthermore, the outline in upper West Harlem is brown, which indicates that there is a high population of people that have been in the emergency room because of asthma. These data are important because it shows the high level of asthma that is present in the West Harlem community, and from my previous research, these asthma cases could be due to the bus depots and the smoke from the North River Wastewater Treating Plant.