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  "name": "clarke-deaths-1853-1896",
  "title": "Clarke County deaths by period, race, cause and age, 1853-1896",
  "description": "Counts of the deaths in Patricia B. Duncan’s transcription of the county death register: by period, race group and cause group, by age at death, and by year. Reported deaths, not rates.",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "created": "2026-10-14",
  "homepage": "https://ourclarke.com/data/#clarke-deaths-1853-1896",
  "licenses": [
    {
      "name": "CC-BY-4.0",
      "title": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International",
      "path": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Patricia B. Duncan, Clarke County, Virginia Death Register 1853-1896, with Birth Records 1855-1856 Entered on Death Register",
      "path": "https://ourclarke.com/deaths/"
    }
  ],
  "citation": "Our Clarke. \"Clarke County deaths by period, race, cause and age, 1853-1896.\" Dataset, version 1.0.0, published 2026-10-14. Heritage Books, Inc., Westminster, Maryland, 2008; transcribed from the Library of Virginia microfilm of the county's death register. https://ourclarke.com/data/#clarke-deaths-1853-1896. License: CC BY 4.0.",
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      "path": "clarke-deaths-1853-1896-2026-10-14.csv",
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      "format": "csv",
      "mediatype": "text/csv",
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        "lineTerminator": "\n",
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      },
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      "schema": {
        "fields": [
          {
            "name": "table",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Which table the row belongs to: cause_by_period (deaths by period, race group and cause group), age_by_period (by period, race group and age at death) or by_year (by year and race group)."
          },
          {
            "name": "period",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "The period of the death: 1853-1860, 1861-1865, 1866-1879, 1880-1896, or \"year not known\"."
          },
          {
            "name": "year",
            "type": "integer",
            "description": "The year of the death, in the by_year table only. Filed by the printed date, or by the year written on the register page where the printed date could not be read."
          },
          {
            "name": "race_group",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "white, colored, enslaved or not stated, grouped from race as the register records it (\"white\", \"colored\", \"slave\")."
          },
          {
            "name": "category",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "The cause group (cause_by_period) or age group (age_by_period). Cause groups are research groupings of 19th-century terms, not diagnoses. \"not stated\" means the register gives no cause or age; \"not shown\" means the value is not shown on the /deaths/ card because it did not read cleanly from the scan."
          },
          {
            "name": "deaths",
            "type": "integer",
            "description": "The number of death entries in the group. A count of reported deaths, not a rate."
          },
          {
            "name": "group_deaths",
            "type": "integer",
            "description": "All death entries for the same period and race group, the base for a share within that group. Empty in the by_year table."
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}