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1603True bill of the vvhole number that hath died at London.
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1662Natural and political observations mentioned in a following index, and made upon the Bills of Mortality.
GRAUNT, John (1620 – 1674)
1665London’s dreadful visitation, or, a collection of all the Bills of Mortality for the present year: beginning the 27th of December 1664, and ending the 19th of December following…By the Company of Parish Clerks of London.
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1693An estimate of the degrees of mortality of mankind, drawn from curious tables of the births and funerals at the city of Breslaw, with an attempt to ascertain the price of annuities upon lives.
HALLEY, Edmond (1656 – 1742)
HALLEY, Edmond (1656 – 1742)
1699Several essays in political arithmetic.
PETTY, Sir William (1623 – 1687)
PETTY, Sir William (1623 – 1687)
1710An argument for Divine Providence, taken from the constant regularity observed in the births of both sexes.
ARBUTHNOT, John (1667 – 1735)
ARBUTHNOT, John (1667 – 1735)
1723A letter … containing, a comparison between the mortality of the natural small pox, and that given by inoculation.
JURIN, James (1684 – 1750)
JURIN, James (1684 – 1750)
1725Annuities upon lives; or, the valuation of annuities upon any number of lives; as also, of reversions. To which is added, an appendix concerning the expectations of life and probabilities of survivorship.
MOIVRE, Abraham de (1667 – 1754)
MOIVRE, Abraham de (1667 – 1754)
1731Tabular observations recommended as the plainest and surest way of practising and improving physick. In a letter to a friend.
CLIFTON, Francis ( – 1836)
1732The state of physick, ancient and modern, briefly considered: with a plan for the improvement of it.
CLIFTON, Francis ( – 1836)
1742Die göttliche Ordnung in denen Veränderungen des menschlichen Geschlechts.
SÜSSMILCH, Johann Peter (1707 – 1767)
1746Essai sur les probabilitiés de la durée de la vie humaine: d’où l’on déduit la manière de déterminer les rentes viagères, tant simples qu’en tontines.
DEPARCIEUX, Antoine (1703 – 1768)
DEPARCIEUX, Antoine (1703 – 1768)
1750New observations, natural, moral, civil, political, and medical, on city, town, and country bills of mortality.
SHORT, Thomas (1690 – 1772)
1759A collection of the yearly bills of mortality, from 1657 to 1758 inclusive. Together with several other bills of an earlier date. To which are subjoined I. Natural and political observations on the bills of mortality; by Capt. John Graunt, F.R.S. reprinted from the sixth edition, in 1676. II. Another essay in political arithmetic, concerning the growth of city of London; with the measures, periods, causes, and consequences thereof. By Sir William Petty, Kt. F.R.S. reprinted from the edition printed at London in 1683. III. Observations on the past growth and present state of the city of London; reprinted from the edition printed at London in 175.1; with a continuation of the tables to the end of the year 1756
HEBERDEN, William Sr. (1710 – 1801)
HEBERDEN, William Sr. (1710 – 1801)
PETTY, Sir William (1623 – 1687)
PETTY, Sir William (1623 – 1687) MORRIS, Corbyn (1710 – 1779) POSTLETHWAYT, James ( – 1761)
1761​–1762Die gottliche Ordnung in den Veranderungen des menschlichen Geschlechts, aus der Geburt, dem Tode und der Fortpflanzung desselben erwiesen. Zwote und ganz umgearbeitete Ausgabe. 2 vols.
SÜSSMILCH, Johann Peter (1707 – 1767)
1767A comparative history of the increase and decrease of mankind in England, and several countries abroad, according to the different soils, situations, business of life, use of the non-naturals, &c. faithfully collected from, and attested by, above three hundred vouchers, and many of them for a long course of years, in two different Periods. To which is added a syllabus of the general States of health, air, seasons, and food for the last three hundred years; and also a meteorological discourse.
SHORT, Thomas (1690 – 1772)
1786Tableau des variétés de la vie humaine. 2 vols.
DAIGNAN, Guillaume (1732 – 1812)
1789An arithmetical and medical analysis of the diseases and mortality of the human species.
BLACK, William (1749 – 1829)
BLACK, William (1749 – 1829)
1791Return of the whole number of persons with the several districts of the United States, according to "An Act Providing for the Enumeration of the Inhabitants of the United States," passed March the first, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one.
UNITED STATES
1798An essay on the principle of population, as it affects the future improvement of society.
MALTHUS, Thomas Robert (1766 – 1834)
MALTHUS, Thomas Robert (1766 – 1834)
1801The statistical breviary; shewing, on a principle entirely new, the resources of every state and kingdom in Europe; illustrated with stained copperplate charts, representing the physical powers of each distinct nation with ease and perspicuity. To which is added, a similar exhibition of the ruling powers of Hindoostan.
PLAYFAIR, William (1759 – 1823)
1801Observations on the increase and decrease of different disease, and particularly of the plague.
HEBERDEN, William Jr. (1767 – 1845)
1801​–1802Abstract of the answers and returns made pursuant to an act, passed in the forty-first year of His Majesty King George III. Intituled, “An act for taking an account of the population of Great Britain, and the increase or diminution thereof.” 2 vols. in 3.
RICKMAN, John (1771 – 1840)
RICKMAN, John (1771 – 1840)
1802Natural and political observations and conclusions upon the state and condition of England, 1696. Pages 405-449 in An estimate of the comparative strength of Great-Britain; and of the losses of her trade from every war since the revolution; with an introduction of previous history. A new edition, corrected and continued to 1801. To which is now annexed Gregory King's celebrated state of England.
KING, Gregory (1648 – 1712)
CHALMERS, George (1742 – 1825)
CHALMERS, George (1742 – 1825)
1806Analyse et tableaux de l’influence de la petite vérole sur la mortalité à chaque âge, et de celle qu’un préservatif tel que la vaccine peut avoir sur la population et la longevité.
DUVILLARD, Emmanuel Etienne (1755 – 1832)
1813Treatise on the history, nature, and treatment of chincough: Including a variety of cases and dissections. To which is subjoined an inquiry into the relative mortality of the principal diseases of children, and the numbers who have died under ten years of age, in Glasgow, during the last thirty years.
WATT, Robert (1774 – 1819)
WATT, Robert (1774 – 1819)
1819Reports on the diseases of London, and the state of the weather, from 1804-1816; including practical remarks on the causes and treatment of the former; and preceded by a historical view of the state of health and disease in the metropolis in past times.
BATEMAN, Thomas (1778 – 1821)
1822Illustrations and proofs of the principle of population including an examination of the proposed remedies of Mr. Malthus, and a reply to the objections of Mr. Godwin and others.
PLACE, Francis (1771 – 1854)
PLACE, Francis (1771 – 1854)
1825​–1835Beiträge zur medizinischen Statistik un Staatsarzneikunde. 2 vols.
CASPER, Johann Ludwig (1796 – 1864)
CASPER, Johann Ludwig (1796 – 1864)
1825Recherches anatomico-pathologiques sur la phthisis.
LOUIS, Pierre Charles Alexandre (1787 – 1872)
LOUIS, Pierre Charles Alexandre (1787 – 1872)
1825On the nature of the function expressive of the law of human mortality, and on a new mode of determining the value of life contingencies.
GOMPERTZ, Benjamin (1779 – 1865)
GOMPERTZ, Benjamin (1779 – 1865)
1829Elements of medical statistics.
HAWKINS, Francis Bisset (1796 – 1894)
HAWKINS, Francis Bisset (1796 – 1894)
1834Rapport sur la marche et les effets du choléra-morbus dans Paris et les communes rurales du département de la Seine par la commission nommée, avec l'approbation de M. le ministre du commerce et des travaux publics, par MM. les préfets de la Seine et de police; année 1832.
CHÂTEAUNEUF, Louis-François Benoiston de (1776 – 1856)
1835Recherches sur les effets de la saignée dans quelques maladies inflammatoires, et sur l’action de l’émétique et des vésicatoires dans la pneumonie.
LOUIS, Pierre Charles Alexandre (1787 – 1872)
LOUIS, Pierre Charles Alexandre (1787 – 1872)
1835Sur l’homme et le développement des facultés, ou essai de physique sociale. 2 vols.
QUETELET, Lambert Adolphe Jacques (1796 – 1874)
1837A descriptive and statistical account of the British Empire, exhibiting its extent, physical capacities, population, industry and civil and religious institutions. 2 vols.
MCCULLOCH, John Ramsay (1789 – 1864)
MCCULLOCH, John Ramsay (1789 – 1864)
1837Histoire statistique et morale des enfants trouvés.
TERME, Jean-François (1791 – 1847) MONFALCON, Jean-Baptiste (1792 – 1874)
1838Notice sur la loi que la population suit dans son accroissement.
VERHULST, Pierre François (1804 – 1849)
VERHULST, Pierre François (1804 – 1849)
1839Vital statistics. IN: A statistical account of the British Empire: exhibiting its extent, physical capacities, population, industries, and civil and religious institutions by J[ohn] R[amsey] McCulloch, 2nd ed., 2, 52-90.
FARR, William (1807 – 1883)
FARR, William (1807 – 1883)
MCCULLOCH, John Ramsay (1789 – 1864)
MCCULLOCH, John Ramsay (1789 – 1864)
1839First annual report of the Registrar-General on births, deaths, and marriages in England.
FARR, William (1807 – 1883)
FARR, William (1807 – 1883)
1840​–1856Statistical report on the sickness and mortality in the Army of the United States. Vol. 1 (1819-1839), Vol. 2 (1839-1855), Vol. 3 (1855-1860).
LAWSON, Thomas (1789 – 1861)
LAWSON, Thomas (1789 – 1861) COOLIDGE, Richard Henry (1816 – 1866)
1840Principes généraux de statistique médicale.
GAVARRET, Louis Denis Jules (1809 – 1890)
GAVARRET, Louis Denis Jules (1809 – 1890)
1842Report…from the Poor Law Commissioners on an inquiry into the sanitary conditions of the labouring population of Great Britain.
CHADWICK, Sir Edwin (1800 – 1890)
CHADWICK, Sir Edwin (1800 – 1890)
1845Recherches mathématiques sur la loi d’accroissement de la population.
VERHULST, Pierre François (1804 – 1849)
VERHULST, Pierre François (1804 – 1849)
1858Notes on matters affecting the health, efficiency, and hospital administration of the British Army. Founded chiefly on the experience of the late war. Presented by request to the Secretary of State for War.
NIGHTINGALE, Florence (1820 – 1910)
NIGHTINGALE, Florence (1820 – 1910)
1859On the construction of life-tables, illustrated by a new life-table of the healthy districts of England.
FARR, William (1807 – 1883)
FARR, William (1807 – 1883)
1860On the law of mortality and the construction of annuity tables.
MAKEHAM, William Matthews (1826 – 1891)
1864English life table. Tables of lifetimes, annuities, and premiums.
FARR, William (1807 – 1883)
FARR, William (1807 – 1883)
1870Anthropométrie, ou mesure des différentes facultés de l’homme.
QUETELET, Lambert Adolphe Jacques (1796 – 1874)
1873Plan einer Mortalitäts-Statistik für Grossstädte.
KÖRÖSI, József von (1844 – 1906)