I have to reconstruct the graph showing death rates from infectious diseases and from all causes in London. But I have trouble with finding the data for the period 1760-1834.
In the graph are shown three curves:
- Annual numbers of deaths per million inhabitants.
- Annual numbers of deaths from "measles, fevers, whooping-cough and diphtheria" per million inhabitants.
- Annual numbers of deaths from smallpox per million inhabitants.
The annual absolute numbers of deaths from all causes and from smallpox are presented in the Second Report of the Royal Commission, p. 290-291, but for the years 1832, 1833 and 1834 the data does not exist for deaths assigned to "all causes". To obtain the normalized value (referred to a million inhabitants) I need the London population values for the same period. The London population I found in the Third Report of the Royal Commission, p. 196, but only for the years 1780-1831. So it does not cover the required interval 1760-1834. Therefore my questions are: How to find the London population for each year in the periods 1760-1779 and 1832-1834? How to find the London total mortality in 1832-1834?
Probably I have to use the referenced Bills of Mortality, but I don't know how to find the requested data in these documents.
Even more difficult seems to be the problem of finding the data concerning combined "measles, fevers, whooping-cough and diphtheria", because the referenced book A History of Epidemics in Britain does not cover the whole period with mortality of these diseases.
If someone could help, I will be very grateful.
I found the book Statistics of the British Empire, by John Marshall, 1837. It contains the annual numbers of deaths due to various diseases in the requested period, but unfortunately it has some scanning errors - the table concerning the "period IV" (1790-1831) has not got its first page. Only the last part of the table is present in the book. Has anybody the complete version of this book?
Probably some of the data I am looking for are presented in the Annual Report of the Medical Officer of the Local Government Board for 1884, page 32 Fourteenth Annual Report of the Local Government Board 1884-1885, pages 31, 32. But I have no idea where to find this book. Do you have the access to it? It contains no additional data.