Bills of Mortality
14 November 1719
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Abortive Aged Ague Apoplexy Asthma Bloody Flux Cancer Childbed Chrisoms [1] Colick Consumption Convulsion Dropsie Evil Fever French-Pox Gangrene Gout Griping in the Guts Headmouldshot [2] |
3 |
Jaundies
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1
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[ 1 Infant who died before or shortly after baptism 2 Inflammation or water in the brain
3 Cyst or abscess 4 Lung problems 5 Consumption. ]
Christned Males 171. Females 156. In all 327.
Buried Males 26. Females 26 In all 52
Decreased in the Burials this Week 52.
[Weekly Journal, or The British Gazetteer]
24 December 1726
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Abortive Aged Ague Apoplexy Asthma Bedridden Bleeding Bloody-flux [1] Bursten [2] Cancer Canker Childbed Chrisoms [3] Cholick Consumption Convulsion Cough Cramp Diabetes Dropsy Evil [4] Falling Sickness [5] Fever Fistula Flux French Pox [6] Gout Gravel [7] Grief Grip, in the Guts Headmouldshot [8] Hooping-Cough Horseshoehead [9] Jaundice Imposthume [10] Itch Leprosy Lethargy Liver-grown [11] |
73 2667 6 93 144 3 5 23 2 56 15 245 3 116 3764 8708 15 1 1 1072 43 1 4666 15 11 82 32 2 18 583 58 37 37 140 37 3 3 7 13 |
Loosness [12] Lunatick Malignant-Fever Measles Miscarriage Mortification Pain in the Head Palsy Planet Struck [13] Plurisy Purples [14] Quinsy [15] Rash Rheumatism Rickets Rising o'th' Lights [16] Rupture St. Anthony's Fire Scald Head Scurvy Small Pox Sores and Ulcers Spleen Spotted Fever Stilborn Stone [17] Stop, in the Stom[ach] Strangury [18] Suddenly Surfeit Swelling Teeth Thrush [19] Tissick [20] Twist, of the Guts Tympany [21] Vomiting Water in the Head Worms |
58 55 1 256 1 216 2 34 1 53 12 4 5 40 187 72 18 5 1 2 1559 17 7 84 609 51 183 2 111 9 1 2058 112 476 21 10 19 77 52 |
[ 1 Dysentery 2 Rupture 3 Infant death shortly after baptism 4 Scrofula 5 Epilepsy
6 Venereal disease
7 Urinary deposits 8 & 9 Inflammation of the brain 10 Abscess
11 Enlarged liver 12 Dysentery 13 Paralytic, confounded 14 Spotted fever, sometimes measles
15 Throat inflammation 16 Lung disease 17 Gall-stones 18 Urinary disease
19 Mouth and throat infection 20 Consumption 21 Tumours ]
Casualties
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Broken Leg Broken Skull Bruised Burnt Drowned Excessive Drinking Executed Found dead Frighted |
3 1 3 2 98 25 21 36 1 |
Kill'd by physically taking the Powder of a poisonous Herb Kill'd by several Ac[ci]dents Made away themselves Murder'd Overlaid [1] Scalded Shot Stabb'd |
1 46 59 9 67 2 1 1 |
[ 1 Infants accidentally suffocated when their mother or nurse rolls over on them in bed ]
Christned Males 9605. Females 9203. In all 18808.
Buried Males 15030. Females 14617. In all 29647.
Increased in the Burials this Year 4124.
[Weekly Journal, or The British Gazetteer]
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CITATION: Rictor Norton, Early Eighteenth-Century Newspaper Reports: A Sourcebook, "Bills of Mortality", 19 December 2001 <http://grubstreet.rictornorton.co.uk/mortalit.htm>