Exhibition of 17th century mortality in Britain

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Records revealed the seventeenth century that the idle and itching but also the reasons for the fear of death for people in Europe.
The Daily Telegraph that these figures have been published in the Royal Society exhibition culminates 350 years of collecting books, has revealed that thirty thousand people died in London due to atrophic disease between 1647 and 1657 and that's when the city had a population of 350 thousand only.
These numbers are in the book of John Graont in 1679 entitled "Notes on the natural and political figures of deaths," a book in a leading medical statistics.
The newspaper pointed out that the numbers of the dead were published in London every week, and the details that a population of London died in 1648 because of the itching, and in 1660 he died nine people because of the horror, and the numbers of another die because of laziness, while he died two hundred people because of the depression in the twenty years.
He spoke the book for the death of twenty people each year illness, "the curse of the King" and is believed to be a form of TB.
The exhibition also includes a patch that Isaac Newton's handwriting of the manuscript of "sporting assets of natural philosophy," and the first edition of Charles Darwin's "Origin of Species."
Said Keith Moore, director of the library and archives of the Royal Society "This exhibition celebrates the anniversary of the 350 of the Assembly, has got the book" The talk in vegetation "to Kenem Degni, written in 1661, and there his edition of a pocket-sized, according to today's standards, and there are many books on display, and visitors can read it, but without touching them, including the first edition of the Origin of Species Darwin himself recorded the author's handwriting. "


 Source: The Daily Telegraph