2. That thirteen parishes are too few for 4,000 families; the
middling parishes of London containing 120 families; according to
which rate there should be about thirty-three parishes in Dublin.
3. It is said that there are 84,000 houses or families in London,
which is twenty-one times more than are in Dublin, and yet the
births and burials of London are but twelve times those of Dublin,
which shows that the inhabitants of Dublin are more crowded and
straitened in their housing than those of London; and consequently
that to increase the buildings of Dublin will make that city more
conformable to London.
4. I shall also add some reasons for altering the present forms of
the Dublin bills of mortality, according to what hath been here
recommended--viz.:
1. We give the distinctions of males and females in the births
only; for that the burials must, at one time or another, be in the
same proportion with the births.
2. We do in the weekly and quarterly bills propose that notice be
taken in the burials of what numbers die above sixty and seventy,
and what under sixteen, six, and two years old, foreseeing good uses
to be made of that distinction.
3. We do in the yearly bill reduce the casualties to about twenty-
four, being such as may be discerned by common sense, and without
art, conceiving that more will but perplex and imbroil the account.
And in the quarterly bills we reduce the diseases to three heads--
viz.
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