Natural and Political Observations Mentioned in a Following Index, and Made upon the Bills of Mortality

Target entity: Natural and Political Observations Mentioned in a Following Index, and Made upon the Bills of Mortality
Context triple: [John Graunt, notableWork, Natural and Political Observations Mentioned in a Following Index, and Made upon the Bills of Mortality]

• A. An Estimate of the Degrees of the Mortality of Mankind (1693)
  An Estimate of the Degrees of the Mortality of Mankind (1693) is Edmund Halley’s pioneering demographic study that introduced one of the first life tables and laid foundations for actuarial science and life insurance mathematics.
• B. A Journal of the Plague Year
  A Journal of the Plague Year is a historical novel by Daniel Defoe that vividly reconstructs life in London during the 1665 bubonic plague outbreak.
• C. An Essay on the Principle of Population
  An Essay on the Principle of Population is an influential 1798 work of political economy and demography arguing that population growth tends to outpace food production, leading to inevitable checks such as famine, disease, and war.
• D. A Short Discourse concerning Pestilential Contagion
  A Short Discourse concerning Pestilential Contagion is an influential early 18th-century medical treatise by physician Richard Mead that analyzes the nature, causes, and prevention of plague and other contagious diseases.
• E. London Bills of Mortality
  London Bills of Mortality were early modern weekly mortality statistics for London, recording deaths and their causes and serving as a crucial source for understanding epidemics and public health, including the Great Plague.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: Natural and Political Observations Mentioned in a Following Index, and Made upon the Bills of Mortality
Target entity description: Natural and Political Observations Mentioned in a Following Index, and Made upon the Bills of Mortality is a pioneering 17th-century work of statistical analysis that laid the foundations for demography and epidemiology by examining London’s mortality records.

• A. An Estimate of the Degrees of the Mortality of Mankind (1693)
  An Estimate of the Degrees of the Mortality of Mankind (1693) is Edmund Halley’s pioneering demographic study that introduced one of the first life tables and laid foundations for actuarial science and life insurance mathematics.
• B. A Journal of the Plague Year
  A Journal of the Plague Year is a historical novel by Daniel Defoe that vividly reconstructs life in London during the 1665 bubonic plague outbreak.
• C. An Essay on the Principle of Population
  An Essay on the Principle of Population is an influential 1798 work of political economy and demography arguing that population growth tends to outpace food production, leading to inevitable checks such as famine, disease, and war.
• D. A Short Discourse concerning Pestilential Contagion
  A Short Discourse concerning Pestilential Contagion is an influential early 18th-century medical treatise by physician Richard Mead that analyzes the nature, causes, and prevention of plague and other contagious diseases.
• E. London Bills of Mortality
  London Bills of Mortality were early modern weekly mortality statistics for London, recording deaths and their causes and serving as a crucial source for understanding epidemics and public health, including the Great Plague.
• F. None of above. chosen