| Description Of Item | Clipped article written by E.M.L. from the British Medical Journal in a scrapbook from the collection of John Ritchie relating to the history of the Bills of Mortality, which discusses the various outdated names given to diseases and causes of death during its run from the 1500s to 1800s before the Births and Deaths Registration Act in 1837 passed these records under the Registrar-General’s remit. Also includes references to John Gaunt’s book Natural and Political Observations mentioned in a following Index, and made upon the Bills of Mortality. |