Using the data from the Monarch’s Bills and our categories, three interactive graphs were created with the Flourish app from Canva. The first graph is a pie chart which displays the numerical distribution of deaths by year, cause, and parish. The second is a grouped bar chart that breaks down mortality totals by year, which geographic parish subunit they occurred in (within the London walls, outside (without) the London walls, Westminster, and Middlesex and Surrey) and what age category they fell under. From this graph three conclusions can be drawn. Infants within the first 30 days of life are the most vulnerable population across London. The greatest concentration of deaths is in parishes outside the walls of London and of Middlesex and Surrey. And, the highest mortality rate as a single category were infants 1-12 months old located outside the walls of London.

A separate bar chart was created to visualize maternal mortality. This graph displays parishes with the greatest number of deaths labeled ‘childbed,’ with different colors denoting different years. For the sake of a reasonably sized graph, only parishes with a total count for ‘childbed’ greater than two (2) were visualized. This means that only 16 parishes are displayed in the graph even though there were more childbed deaths recorded in the Monarch’s bills between the years 1665-1669.

Read the corresponding blog post for this visualization.