You ask the portier at what hours the trains leave--he tells you instantly; or you ask him who is the best physician in town; or what is the hack tariff; or how many children the mayor has; or what days the galleries are open, and whether a permit is required, and where you are to get it, and what you must pay for it; or when the theaters open and close, what the plays are to be, and the price of seats; or what is the newest thing in hats; or how the bills of mortality
average; or "who struck Billy Patterson.
There he had an opportunity of refreshing himself with both the bottles at once, looking out at a low blinding wall three feet off, and speculating on the number of Barnacle families within the bills of mortality
who lived in such hutches of their own free flunkey choice.
Taking into account the number of animals slaughtered yearly within the bills of mortality
alone; and forming a low estimate of the quantity of tripe which the carcases of those animals, reasonably well butchered, would yield; I find that the waste on that amount of tripe, if boiled, would victual a garrison of five hundred men for five months of thirty-one days each, and a February over.
Historians consider his 1662 book, "Natural and Political Observations Made Upon the Bills of Mortality
," to be a seminal moment in the genesis of disease classification.
All this was writ large in the Bills of Mortality
that were the government's summary, based on parish records, of the numbers and causes of citizen deaths.
A review of evidence on infant mortality derived from the London bills of mortality
and parish registers indicates that there were major registration problems throughout the whole of the parish register period.
Defoe's reproduction of the Bills of Mortality
is widely understood as a tactic for lending the fiction credibility, as he tried to pass it off as authentic.
In short, death was on the mind of Tudor and Stuart subjects, and they wrote about it obsessively, from sermons to bills of mortality
to tragedies to elegies.
Using a combination of evidence from bills of mortality
, examination of bones, historical records and palaeopathological study, 'Health and Disease in Britain' builds a picture up of the nation's health in each of the stages of history through which Britain has grown.
The London Bills of Mortality
were the basis for the present day International Classification of Diseases (ICD) as first proposed by William Farr in 1855.
Bills of mortality
for the two last centuries, with the principal phenomena of the elements.
Later publications such as advertisers, magazines, and provincial papers excerpted the bills of mortality
, drawing out their pathos.