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Does Graunt state his sample size? or provide the datasource? I cant find it. seems odd to dismiss the data i provided based on sample size when his data is no

Does Graunt state his sample size? or provide the datasource? I cant find it. seems odd to dismiss the data i provided based on sample size when his data is not even avail for scrutiny. > In the 16th and 17th centuries, 11.3% of fertile women died from complications of childbearing." great, what was the average age of a woman at childbirth? We're discussing mortality after 21 right?

philipkglass 8y ago
According to Graunt's own account, he used London's bills of mortality (weekly records of deaths in in London parishes) that were kept in the parish clerk halls. According to the account beginning on page 51 (as numbered in the scan linked below), the people who collected corpses in London would report to the parish clerk how many people had died and the manner of death. Every Tuesday the reports were compiled, printed on Wednesday, published on Thursday. Graunt claims (page 59) that over a period of 20 years these bills recorded 229,250 deaths. Numbers of births came from records of christenings. Here is a scan of Graunt's book "Natural and Political Observations mentioned in a following Index, and made upon the Bills of Mortality." It is old and a bit hard to read. http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/ECHOdocuView?url=/permanent/echo/mpi_rostock/Graunt_1665/index.meta&start=51&viewMode=index&pn=59 http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/ECHOdocuView?url=/permanent/... There is also a transcription of it at Wikisource, but it contains frequent OCR/transcription errors: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Natural_and_Political_Observations_Made_upon_the_Bills_of_Mortality_(Graunt_1676) https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Natural_and_Political_Observa... Average age of a woman at marriage was 23.5, and vast majority of births were to married women, so mother's average age at first childbirth was above 24: https://www.plimoth.org/sites/default/files/media/pdf/edmaterials_demographics.pdf https://www.plimoth.org/sites/default/files/media/pdf/edmate... There appears to be a large collection of the actual bills of mortality scanned and archived here: https://archive.org/details/collectionyearl00hebegoog https://archive.org/details/collectionyearl00hebegoog

philipkglass 8y ago

According to Graunt's own account, he used London's bills of mortality (weekly records of deaths in in London parishes) that were kept in the parish clerk halls. According to the account beginning on page 51 (as numbered in the scan linked below), the people who collected corpses in London would report to the parish clerk how many people had died and the manner of death. Every Tuesday the reports were compiled, printed on Wednesday, published on Thursday. Graunt claims (page 59) that over a period of 20 years these bills recorded 229,250 deaths. Numbers of births came from records of christenings. Here is a scan of Graunt's book "Natural and Political Observations mentioned in a following Index, and made upon the Bills of Mortality." It is old and a bit hard to read. http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/ECHOdocuView?url=/permanent/echo/mpi_rostock/Graunt_1665/index.meta&start=51&viewMode=index&pn=59 http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/ECHOdocuView?url=/permanent/... There is also a transcription of it at Wikisource, but it contains frequent OCR/transcription errors: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Natural_and_Political_Observations_Made_upon_the_Bills_of_Mortality_(Graunt_1676) https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Natural_and_Political_Observa... Average age of a woman at marriage was 23.5, and vast majority of births were to married women, so mother's average age at first childbirth was above 24: https://www.plimoth.org/sites/default/files/media/pdf/edmaterials_demographics.pdf https://www.plimoth.org/sites/default/files/media/pdf/edmate... There appears to be a large collection of the actual bills of mortality scanned and archived here: https://archive.org/details/collectionyearl00hebegoog https://archive.org/details/collectionyearl00hebegoog