bill of mortality

English

Noun

bill of mortality (plural bills of mortality)

1. An official statement of the number of deaths in a place or district within a given time.
   • 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 1, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:

     […] the legion of bills in the suit have been transformed into mere bills of mortality […]

2. A district required to be covered by such a statement.

   a place within the bills of mortality of London