The printed annual returns of Mexico City, 1796: marriages, births, deaths and a hospital-by-hospital account

Anyone who bought the Mexico City almanac for 1797 got three pages of the city's own vital statistics: marriages, births and deaths in all fourteen parishes, a twelve-house hospital return with the dead in a column of their own, and a resumen adding them up. A viceregal decree of 1791 had made the returns due every December so the volume could appear in January. Every printed total balances but one row.