An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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GRAUNT, John

3 entries
  • 1686

Natural and political observations mentioned in a following index, and made upon the Bills of Mortality.

London: T. Roycroft for J. Martyn, J. Allestry and T. Dicas, 1662.

The first book on vital statistics. Graunt, a draper, studied the Bills of Mortality, which began as weekly lists of deaths and their causes, compiled by parish clerks. They gained much in importance after Graunt’s work, and in 1838 merged into the Registrar-General’s returns. Graunt was a friend of Sir William Petty. Some authorities attribute authorship of the above work to Petty. In his A bibliography of Sir William Petty F.R.S. and of Observations on the bills of Mortality by John Graunt, F.R.S, (1971) Geoffrey Keynes traces the interrelationship of these authors.



Subjects: DEMOGRAPHY / Population: Medical Statistics
  • 11824

The economic writings of Sir William Petty together with Observations upon the bills of mortality, more probably by Captain John Graunt. Edited by Charles Henry Hull. 2 vols.

Cambridge, England: at the University Press, 1899.

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Subjects: Collected Works: Opera Omnia, DEMOGRAPHY / Population: Medical Statistics
  • 11818

A bibliography of Sir William Petty F.R.S. and of Observations on the bills of mortality by John Graunt F.R.S. by Geoffrey Keynes.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971.


Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Bibliographies of Individual Authors, DEMOGRAPHY / Population: Medical Statistics