The London observations flowed from bills regularly kept for near
one hundred years, but these are squeezed out of six straggling
London bills, out of fifteen Dublin bills, and from a note of the
families and hearths in each parish of Dublin, which are all
digested into the one table or sheet annexed, consisting of three
parts, marked A, B, C; being indeed the A, B, C of public economy,
and even of that policy which tends to peace and plenty.
Observations upon the Table A.
1. The total of the burials in London (for the said six straggling
years mentioned in the Table A) is 120,170, whereof the medium or
sixth part is 20,028, and exceeds the burials of Paris, as may
appear by the late bills of that city.
2. The births, for the same time, are 73,683, the medium or sixth
part whereof is 12,280, which is about five-eighth parts of the
burials, and shows that London would in time decrease quite away,
were it not supplied out of the country, where are about five births
for four burials, the proportion of breeders in the country being
greater than in the city.
3. The burials in Dublin for the said six years were 9,865, the
sixth part or medium whereof is 1,644, which is about the twelfth
part of the London burials, and about a fifth part over. So as the
people of London do hereby seem to be above twelve times as many as
those of Dublin.
4. The births in the same time at Dublin are 6,157, the sixth part
or medium whereof is 1,026, which is also about five-eighth parts of
the 1,644 burials, which shows that the proportion between burials
and births are alike at London and Dublin, and that the accounts are
kept alike, and consequently are likely to be true, there being no
confederacy for that purpose; which, if they be true, we then say -
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