A general bill of all the christnings and burials In the Parish of St. Luke, [electronic resource] : Chelsea, Middlesex, from the 21st of December 1777, to the 21st of December 1778. Presented by their obedient Servant, George Goodyer, Deputy Clerk. Whereof have died, Years of Age, Under Two Years of Age 70 Between Two and Five - 26 Five and Ten - - 6 Ten and Twenty - - 8 Twenty and Thirty - - 16 Thirty and Forty - - 18 Forty and Fifty - - - 26 Fifty and Sixty - - 12 Sixty and Seventy - - 25 Seventy and Eighty - - 16 Eighty and Ninety - - 9 Ninety and a Hundred 3 In all 235 Diseases and Casualties. Aged - - - 26 Ague - - - - - 3 Apoplexy and Suddenly - 3 Asthma - - - - - 8 Cancer - - - - 3 Childbed - - - 1 Cholic - - - - - 2 Consumption - - 60 Convulsions - - - - 20 Dropsy - - - 8 Drowned by Accident - 1 Fever - - - 18 Fits - - - - - - 26 Gout - - - 2 Gripes - - - - - 10 Hooping Cough - - 2 Inflammation - - 4 Killed by a Fall - - - 1 Measles - - - - - 3 Mortification - - 3 Palsy - - - - - 6 Small Pox - - 14 Teeth - - - - - 5 Thrush - - - 6 In all 235 Abortive and Still-Born 6 Christned Males 69 Females 74 In all 143 Decreased in the Baptisms this Year 7. Buried Males 116 Females 119 In all 235 Decreased in the Burials this Year 45. N. B. Out of which Number of Burials were 22 Strangers buried.