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Public health
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2 days ago

How Londoners tracked death figures to survive the Great Plague of 1665

Londoners used weekly Bills of Mortality death figures during the 1665 Great Plague to guide daily movements, social contacts, and decisions to stay or flee.
History
fromI Love Typography Ltd
3 months ago

Dumb Ways to Die: Printed Ephemera - I Love Typography Ltd

Seventeenth-century London printed weekly Bills of Mortality, sold widely for a penny, revealing profitable public demand for mortality statistics and morbid curiosity.
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