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Causes
of Death in London
taken from the Bills
of Mortality 1775
| Natural deaths | Non-natural causes |
| Abortive and stillborn 529 | Bite - mad dog 2 |
| Aged 1297 | Broken limbs - |
| Ague 5 | Bruised 1 |
| Apoplexy, suddenly & planet struck 215 | Burnt 8 |
| Asthma & tissick 286 | Choked - |
| Bedridden 6 | Drowned 104 |
| Bleeding 9 | Excessive drinking 2 |
| Blood flux 3 | Executed 24 |
| Bursten & rupture 9 | Fools etc 64 |
| Cancer 54 | Found dead 2 |
| Canker 9 | Frighted - |
| Childbed 188 | Frozen - |
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Chicken pox - |
Murdered 3 |
| Cold 18 | Overlaid 4 |
| Colick & Twisted gut 70 | Poisoned - |
| Consumption 4452 | Scalded 1 |
| Convulsions 5177 | Shot - |
| Cough, chin & whooping 206 | Smothered - |
| Diabetes 2 | Stabbed - |
| Dropsie 865 | Starved 2 |
| Evil 11 | Suffocated 4 |
| Falling sickness - | Suicide 29 |
| Fever, scarlet, purple spotted 2244 |
| Fistula 9 |
| Flux 9 |
| French pox 71 |
| Gout 69 |
| Gravel, stones 36 |
| Grief 3 |
| Griping in the guts - |
| Horseshoe head, head made hot, water on the head 19 |
| Headache 2 |
| Jaundice 120 |
| Impostume 11 |
| Inflammation 114 |
| Itch 1 |
| Leprosie 1 |
| Lethargy 6 |
| Livergrown 2 |
| Lunatick 52 |
| Measles 283 |
| Miscarriage 4 |
| Mortification 169 |
| Palsie 65 |
| Quinsie 4 |
| Rash 1 |
| Rheumatism 6 |
| Rickets 1 |
| Rising of the lights - |
| Scald head 4 |
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Sciatica - |
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Scurvy 2 |
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Sore throat 4 |
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Smallpox 2699 |
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Sores & ulcers 9 |
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St Anthony's fire 2 |
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Stoppage in the stomach 10 |
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Surfeit 1 |
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Swelling 1 |
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Teeth 694 |
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Thrush 77 |
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Tympany 1 |
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Vapours - |
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Vomiting & looseness 5 |
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Worms 1 |
