bill of mortality

noun

An official statement of the number of deaths in a place or district within a given time.

“(a place) within the bills of mortality of London”

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Meanings

nounbill of mortality (plural bills of mortality)

plural bills of mortality

  1. An official statement of the number of deaths in a place or district within a given time.

    […] the legion of bills in the suit have been transformed into mere bills of mortality […]

    1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 1, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC
  2. A district required to be covered by such a statement.

    (a place) within the bills of mortality of London

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