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bill of mortality en · NOUN
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An official statement of the number of deaths in a place or district within a given time.
[…] the legion of bills in the suit have been transformed into mere bills of mortality […]
1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 1, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:
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A district required to be covered by such a statement.
(a place) within the bills of mortality of London
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