[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council] page 176

London County Council 1957

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]

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ANNEX A

Year	Number of Deaths	Source	Annual Bills of Mortality
Year	Number of Deaths	Source	Remarks
1578	7,830	Creighton	The original figures are reproduced by Creighton (p. 341) from the Cecil House M.S.S. at Hatfield House. In 1580 only 128 died of the plague.
1579	3,406	„
1580	2,873	„
1581	3,931 (only 45 weeks available)	„
1582	6,762	„
1582	6,930	Guildhall Library (referred to hereafter as G.L.)	From a manuscript in the Guildhall Library. The area covered 109 parishes.
1583-1591			So far as is known no records were kept or preserved.
1592	26,490	Graunt and Bell Windet	According to Graunt the figure of 25,886 covers the period March to December (11,503 died of plague). In a Bill published in 1603 by John Windet the 25,886 is attributed to the whole of the year 1593 with an additional note that 2,000 died the year before. (Confusion may have arisen because in those days the new year began on 25 March and the year covering the Bills began on 1 January, 1592, and ended 31 December, 1593.)
1592	25,886	Windet
1593	17,844	Graunt, Bell and Maitland	Graunt said that 10,662 died of the plague whereas Maitland gave a figure of 15,093.
1594	3,929	Creighton	Population was estimated to be 152,000 (p. 473).
1595	3,507
1596-1602			No information.
1603	38,244	Graunt	This figure was for the year (23 December, 1602— 22 December, 1603). This figure is also given in a report published by the Company of Parish Clerks and printed by William Stansby.
1603	38,244	Graunt	(In the Guildhall Library there is a report published by the Company of Parish Clerks entitled ' A true report of all the Burials and Christenings within the Citie of London and the Liberties thereof, from the 23 of December 1602 to the 22 of December 1603. Whereunto is added the number of every severall Parish, from the 14 of July to the 22 of December as well within the Citie of London and the Liberties thereof, as in other Parishes in the skirts of the Citie and out of the Freedome adioyning to the Citie : According to the Report made to the KING'S most Excellent Maiestie by the Company of Parish Clerkes of the same Citie ' printed by William Stansby (1604 ? )).
1603	42,042	Maitland	He stated that 36,269 died of the plague.
(cont.)	42,940	Creighton (p. 660)	The figures quoted by Maitland and Creighton probably included 3,354 deaths recorded in the following seven parishes: Hackney, Lambeth, St. Mary Newington, St. Mary Islington, Rotherhithe, Stepney and St. Margaret Westminster. In another document printed by John Windet, deaths in these parishes are recorded. It is also recorded that 4,314 died from 17 December, 1602— 14 July, 1603. Details of deaths in the seven parishes mentioned above were added below the general Bill in the early Bills of Mortality. This fact may account for some of the big differences in the total deaths for certain years.
	42,945	Creighton (p. 474)
1604	5,219	Bell
1605	6,392	Graunt
1606	7,920	Bell
1607	8,022	„
1608	9,020	„
1609	11,785	„	4,240 died of the plague.
1610	9,087	„