A general bill of all the christnings and burials In the Parish of St. Luke, Chelsea, Middlesex, from the 21st of December 1782, to the 21st of December 1783. Presented by their obedient Servant, George Goodyer, Deputy Clerk. Whereof have died, Years of Age, Under Two Years of Age 52 Between Two and Five - 25 Five and Ten - - 12 Ten and Twenty - - 7 Twenty and Thirty - 12 Thirty and Forty - - 19 Forty and Fifty - - 20 Fifty and Sixty - - 19 Sixty and Seventy - - 20 Seventy and Eighty - 18 Eighty and Ninety - - 17 Ninety and a Hundred - 3 In all 224 Diseases and Casualties. Aged - - - 22 Ague - - - 3 Apoplexy and Suddenly - 2 Asthma - - 7 Cancer - - - 3 Childbed - - - 2 Cholic - - - 5 Consumption - - 58 Convulsions - - - 16 Dropsy - - - 4 Drowned by Accident - 1 Fever - - - 14 Fits - - - 17 Found dead - - - 1 Gout - - - - 1 Gripes - - - - 11 Hooping Cough - - 5 Inflammation - - 4 Measles - - - 8 Mortification - - 6 Palsy - - - - 4 Small Pox - - 12 Teeth - - - - 10 Thrush - - - 8 In all 224 Abortive and Still-Born 5. Christned Males 95 Females 102 In all 197 Increased in the Baptisms this Year 36. Buried Males 101 Females 123 In all 224 Decreased in the Burials this Year 4. N. B. Out of which Number of Burials were 15 Strangers buried.

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1783]