Observations medical and political, on the small-pox, and the advantages and disadvantages of general inoculation, especially in cities : and on the mortality of mankind at every age in city and country; with a comparative view and regular tables of all the fatal diseases and casualties in London, during the last one hundred and five years, ... To which is added a postscript, containing the sketch of an easy plan for new modelling and essentially improving the London bills of births and mortality ... / by W. Black.

William Black

Date:: 1781

Credit: Observations medical and political, on the small-pox, and the advantages and disadvantages of general inoculation, especially in cities : and on the mortality of mankind at every age in city and country; with a comparative view and regular tables of all the fatal diseases and casualties in London, during the last one hundred and five years, ... To which is added a postscript, containing the sketch of an easy plan for new modelling and essentially improving the London bills of births and mortality ... / by W. Black. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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[ ] formation, converfed with me on the fubjeft of the bills with civility : the only exception was the parifh clerk of St. Paul's, Covent- Garden: he told me quite abruptly, that every thing relating to the bills was a fecret known to the parifh clerks alone; that he would not divulge either the parochial or corporation myfteries; and with all the vul- gar airs and geftures of opinionated igno- rance, emphatically added, that the parifh clerks were a corpoj-ate body, and if I was about to write any thing to injure the corporation, he would fubfcribe jive hundred pounds to a fund for the purpofc of carrying on a profe- cution againfl me. I entertained too great contempt for his little knov/ledge, his ridicu- lous affeftation of importance, or his threats, to continue the converfation, and departed. Every ambiguity refpecling the prefent complicated police of the London bills, being cleared, I proceed to offer my plan of reformation. The pariihes, (but not all the burying-groiinds in thofe parifhes) now com- prehended within the London bills of mor- tality, amount to 147; of which 97 are with- in the old walls of the city; 17 without the walls, but v/ithin the city liberties; 23 out- parifnes V

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