A general bill of all the christnings and burials In the Parish of St. Luke, Chelsea, Middlesex, from the 21st of December 1784, to the 21st of December 1785. Presented by their obedient Servant, George Goodyer, Deputy Clerk. Whereof have died, Years of Age, Under Two Years of Age 53 Between Two and Five - 24 Five and Ten - - 9 Ten and Twenty - - 5 Twenty and Thirty - 17 Thirty and Forty - - 13 Forty and Fifty - - 19 Fifty and Sixty - - 21 Sixty and Seventy - - 18 Seventy and Eighty - 16 Eighty and Ninety - - 7 Ninety and a Hundred - 3 In all 205 Diseases and Casualties. Aged - - - 21 Ague - - - 3 Apoplexy - - - 2 Asthma - - 5 Cancer - - - 1 Childbed - - - 2 Cholic - - - 4 Consumption - - 55 Convulsions - - - 18 Dropsy - - - 2 Drowned by Accident - 3 Fever - - - 18 Fits - - - 17 Gout - - - - 1 Gripes - - - - 5 Hooping Cough - - 3 Inflammation - - 2 Measles - - - 5 Mortification - - 4 Palsy - - - - 3 Small Pox - - 18 Teeth - - - - 8 Thrush - - - 5 In all 205 Abortive and Still-Born 6 Christned Males 66 Females 83 In all 149 Decreased in the Baptisms this Year 10. Buried Males 100 Females 105 In all 205 Decreased in the Burials this Year 25. N. B. Out of which Number of Burials were 9 Strangers buried.

Date:

1785]