Bill of Mortality 1665 London

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Interesting that only 21 people were excited in a city of 400,000.

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Hard to get aroused when people are dropping like flies.

Except for the 21 necrophiliacs.

Moral of the story: syphillis isn’t the worst thing that can happen to a person.

I googled French Pox awhile back after it was mentioned on the show Harlots.

It all seems like a horrible time to be alive. People dying of freaking scurvy? Nightmare.

Or just to be old. Claimed 1545.

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Moral of the story: syphillis isn’t the worst thing that can happen to a person.

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Bring out your dead!

That font is blurry as shite, Microsoft Word was super shitty in 1665

The last one "Overlaid and starved" ...

Don't think I'll die from being "overlaid"

Starvation has a better shot at me

Cra cra part is they burned the damn city down the following year

Yeah, I think it was. It was easier to run afoul of the law back then so I think just 21 is shockingly low. That's .00005% of the population and things in general were were more violent back then.

Compare that to Dodge (or Carson, can't remember which) where if you lived there from 1860 to 1890, you had well over a 1% chance of dying at another man's hand

Also, as I mentioned, a lot of the other methods of death were probably actually the plague but the searchers of the dead were bribed to give another method of death.

The searchers of the dead were begged women who could y earn income elsewise and were social paria so they were very easily bribed.