Parameters of Pirot inhabitants mortality as from 1879 to 1889

The study presents statistical data related to the mortality parameters in Pirot which were recorded in the registry of deaths during the decade after the town had been freed from the Ottoman Empire and united with the Principality of Serbia. The records made through a research and by processing the data offered by registry books of the Church of the Nativity of Christ and the Church of the Assumtion of the Holy Mother of God can support the research of demographic, health, social and cultural circumstances in the town of Pirot during the period of its adapting to the life of a young Serbian state. The following text contains exact numbers through which the statistics of deaths of ortodox inhabitants of Pirot is presented on the basis of which comparative data of the number of births and deaths, mortality rate in age categories and life expectancy rate can be seen as well as some additional specific data such as causes of deaths and other medical parameters which can be valuable for some further research.