bill of mortality

English

Noun

bill of mortality (plural bills of mortality)

An official statement of the number of deaths in a place or district within a given time.
- 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 1, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:
  […] the legion of bills in the suit have been transformed into mere bills of mortality […]
A district required to be covered by such a statement.
a place within the bills of mortality of London

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