Natural and political observations mentioned in a following index, and made upon the bills of mortality by John Graunt ... ; with reference to the government, religion, trade, growth, ayre, diseases, and the several changes of the said city.
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Natural and political observations mentioned in a following index, and made upon the bills of mortality by John Graunt ... ; with reference to the government, religion, trade, growth, ayre, diseases, and the several changes of the said city.
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Graunt, John, 1620-1674.
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London :: Printed by Tho. Roycroft for John Martin, James Allestry, and Tho. Dicas ...,
1662.
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Mortality -- England -- London.
London (England) -- Statistics, Vital.
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"Natural and political observations mentioned in a following index, and made upon the bills of mortality by John Graunt ... ; with reference to the government, religion, trade, growth, ayre, diseases, and the several changes of the said city." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A41827.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 11, 2024.
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The Table of Burials, and Christnings, consisting of 7 Columns.
IT is to be noted, that in all the several Columns of the Burials those dying of the Plague are left out, being reckoned all together in the sixth Column. Whereas in the original Bills the Plague, and all other diseases are reckoned together, with mention how many of the respective totals are of the Plague.
Secondly, From the year 1642 forwards the ac∣compt of the Christnings is not to be trusted, the neg∣lects of the same beginning about that year: for in 1642 there are set down 10370, and about the same Number several years before, after which time the said Christnings decreased to between 5000 and 6000 by omission of the greater part.
Thirdly, The several Numbers are cast up into Octo∣naries,
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that Comparison may be made of them as as well as of single years.
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