London & Middlesex QM Deaths

The following is data from the burial records I transcribed from the London & Middlesex Quarterly Meeting Records. This is a similar presentation to the one for the Southwark Monthly Meeting.

Leading Causes of Death

This is a list of the top thirty stated causes of death in the records I transcribed:

Cause	Count
Fever	45
Consumption	36
Smallpox	24
Plague	15
Age	13
Convulsions	12
Dropsy	12
Teething	11
Fits	8
Gripes	7
Tissick	5
Stillborn	5
Prison	4
Apoplexy	3
Measles	3
Convulsion fits	3
Rickets	3
Convulsions in the Bowels	2
Teeth	2
Drowned	2
Spotted Fever	2
Stoppage in the Stomach	2
Stoppage	2
Dropsey	1
Dropsy & Convulsions	1
Dropsy & Consumption	1
Died soon after birth	1
Dropsy & Fever	1
Distemper	1
Crissomer	1

Ages at Death

Although many children died at a very young age (the average age at death in this sample was about 25), some people lived to a very old age. Here are the twenty oldest in this sample:

Surname	Name	Age
Clarke	Margaret	96
Robins	John	95
Clarke	Anne	92
Clarke	Jeremiah	92
Warner	Thomas	92
Hopkins	Thomas	91
Stanley	Elinor	90
Cross	Johanna	85
Warner	William	85
Clarke	Elizabeth	83
Lawrence	Margaret	83
Hopkins	Mary	80
Hopkins	Sarah	80
Lawrence	Mary	80
Ward	Edge	80
Ward	Thomas	80
Hatton	Margaret	79
Edmonds	Elinor	78
Robins	Richard, Senr.	77
Ward	Christopher	77

This is a graph of the distribution of ages at death for the people in the sample I transcribed. Note that the infant mortality was very high, while the deaths in the other age ranges were fairly consistent, but with peaks in the 30-39 and 60-69 age ranges.

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This file was last updated on 7/14/2004.

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