The growth of this city is measured. (1) By the quantity of ground,
or number of acres upon which it stands. (2) By the number of
houses, as the same appears by the hearth-books and late maps. (3)
By the cubical content of the said housing. (4) By the flooring of
the same. (5) By the number of days' work, or charge of building
the said houses. (6) By the value of the said houses, according to
their yearly rent, and number of years' purchase. (7) By the number
of inhabitants; according to which latter sense only we make our
computations in this essay.
Till a better rule can be obtained, we conceive that the proportion
of the people may be sufficiently measured by the proportion of the
burials in such years as were neither remarkable for extraordinary
healthfulness or sickliness.
That the city hath increased in this latter sense appears from the
bills of mortality represented in the two following tables, viz.,
one whereof is a continuation for eighteen years, ending 1682, of
that table which was published in the 117th page of the book of the
observations upon the London bills of mortality, printed in the year
1676. The other showeth what number of people died at a medium of
two years, indifferently taken, at about twenty years' distance from
each other.
The first of the said two tables.
A.D. 97 16 Out Buried Besides of Christened
Parishes Parishes Parishes in all the Plague
1665 5,320 12,463 10,925 28,708 68,596 9,967
1666 1,689 3,969 5,082 10,740 1,998 8,997
1667 761 6,405 8,641 15,807 35 10,938
1668 796 6,865 9,603 17,267 14 11,633
1669 1,323 7,500 10,440 19,263 3 12,335
1670 1,890 7,808 10,500 20,198 11,997
1671 1,723 5,938 8,063 15,724 5 12,510
1672 2,237 6,788 9,200 18,225 5 12,593
1673 2,307 6,302 8,890 17,499 5 11,895
1674 2,801 7,522 10,875 21,198 3 11,851
1675 2,555 5,986 8,702 17,243 1 11,775
1676 2,756 6,508 9,466 18,730 2 12,399
1677 2,817 6,632 9,616 19,065 2 12,626
1678 3,060 6,705 10,908 20,673 5 12,601
1679 3,074 7,481 11,173 21,728 2 12,288
1680 3,076 7,066 10,911 21,053 12,747
1681 3,669 8,136 12,166 23,971 13,355
1682 2,975 7,009 10,707 20,691 12,653
According to which latter table there died as follows:-
THE LATTER OF THE SAID TWO TABLES
There died in London at the medium between the years -
1604 and 1605 .
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