Causes of death in Bridgerton England

What did people die of in London during the year 1791?

For you pedants - yes, this is about twenty years before Bridgerton, the hit Netflix drama. But we’re in the same era. Late Georgian. So let’s find out how you might have shuffled off the mortal coil during that era.

One book in my collection of antiquarian guides to London dates from 1791 - and in the appendices, it details what Londoners died of in tha…