Razzell Peter
Local Popul Stud. 2011 Autumn(87):45-64.
A review of evidence on infant mortality derived from the London bills of mortality and parish registers indicates that there were major registration problems throughout the whole of the parish register period. One way of addressing these problems is to carry out reconstitution studies of individual London parishes, but there are a number of problems with reconstitution methodology, including the traffic in corpses between parishes both inside and outside of London and the negligence of clergymen in registering both baptisms and burials. In this paper the triangulation of sources has been employed to measure the adequacy of burial registration, including the comparison of data from bills of mortality, parish registers and probate returns, as well as the use of the same-name technique. This research indicates that between 20 and 40 per cent of burials went unregistered in London during the parish register period.
一项对源自伦敦死亡率账单和教区登记册的婴儿死亡率证据的综述表明，在整个教区登记册时期都存在重大的登记问题。解决这些问题的一种方法是对伦敦各个教区进行重构研究，但重构方法存在一些问题，包括伦敦内外教区之间的尸体转移以及神职人员在登记洗礼和葬礼时的疏忽。在本文中，采用了来源三角测量法来衡量葬礼登记的充分性，包括比较死亡率账单、教区登记册和遗嘱认证回报的数据，以及使用同名技术。这项研究表明，在教区登记册时期，伦敦有20%至40%的葬礼未登记。
