AN ESSAY IN POLITICAL ARITHMETIC
Tending to prove that London hath more people and housing than the
cities of Paris and Rouen put together, and is also more
considerable in several other respects.
1. The medium of the burials at London in the three last years--
viz., 1683, 1684, and 1685, wherein there was no extraordinary
sickness, and wherein the christenings do correspond in their
ordinary proportions with the burials and christenings of each year
one with another, was 22,337, and the like medium of burials for the
three last Paris bills we could procure--viz., for the years 1682,
1683, and 1684 (whereof the last as appears by the christenings to
have been very sickly), is 19,887.
2. The city of Bristol in England appears to be by good estimate of
its trade and customs as great as Rouen in France, and the city of
Dublin in Ireland appears to have more chimneys than Bristol, and
consequently more people, and the burials in Dublin were, A.D. 1682
(being a sickly year) but 2,263.
3. Now the burials of Paris (being 19,887) being added to the
burials of Dublin (supposed more than at Rouen) being 2,263, makes
but 22,150, whereas the burials of London were 187 more, or 22,337,
or as about 6 to 7.
4. If those who die unnecessarily, and by miscarriage in L'Hotel
Dieu in Paris (being above 3,000), as hath been elsewhere shown, or
any part thereof, should be subtracted out of the Paris burials
aforementioned, then our assertion will be stronger, and more
proportionable to what follows concerning the housing of those
cities, viz.
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