Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/Bills of Mortality

Bills of Mortality, are accounts of the number of births and burials in a certain district, during a week, month, quarter of a year, or a whole year. The London Bills of Mortality are composed by the company of parish-clerks, and express the number of each sex; specifying also the various diseases of which they died.

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