	an official statement of the number of deaths in a place or district within a given time; also, a district required to be covered by such statement; as, a place within the bills of mortality of London.
	See under Bill.

See also: Bill, Mortality

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

References in classic literature

The doctor went directly to London, where he died soon after of a broken heart; a distemper which kills many more than is generally imagined, and would have a fair title to a place in the bill of mortality, did it not differ in one instance from all other diseases--viz., that no physician can cure it.

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Henry VII (a Welshman) introduced a weekly Bill of Mortality in 1532 to track infectious epidemics, which still forms tha basis for modern communicable disease surveillance and control to this day.

Statistics alone rarely give the full picture; Dr Phil Banfield, chairman of the BMA's Welsh Council, tries to make sense of the arguments around death rates which have gained political traction

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Bill of mortality