Pioneers of demography

Alan Cannon
By Alan Cannon
History & Archaeology
Pioneers of demography

Title page of the publication “London’s Dreadful Visitation, OR, A Collection of All the Bills of Mortality” from 1665.
AKG-Images / Middle Temple Library / Science Photo Library

When the plague raged in London, the dealer John Graunt systematically analyzed mortality in 1662 – a milestone of modern statistics.

It must have been a strange sight that offered the famous chronicler Samuel Pepys (1633–1703) in September 1665: The streets of London were deserted,

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