We therefore conclude, that London hath more people, housing,
shipping, and wealth, than Paris and Rouen put together; and for
aught yet appears, is more considerable than any other city in the
universe, which was propounded to be proved.
AN ESSAY IN POLITICAL ARITHMETIC
Tending to prove that in the hospital called L'Hotel Dieu at Paris,
there die above 3,000 per annum by reason of ill accommodation.
1. It appears that A.D. 1678 there entered into the Hospital of La
Charite 2,647 souls, of which there died there within the said year
338, which is above an eighth part of the said 2,647; and that in
the same year there entered into L'Hotel Dieu 21,491, and that there
died out of that number 5,630, which is above one quarter, so as
about half the said 5,630, being 2,815, seem to have died for want
of as good usage and accommodation as might have been had at La
Charite.
2. Moreover, in the year 1679 there entered into La Charite 3,118,
of which there died 452, which is above a seventh part, and in the
same year there entered into L'Hotel Dieu 28,635, of which there
died 8,397; and in both the said years 1678 and 1679 (being very
different in their degrees of mortality) there entered into L'Hotel
Dieu 28,635 and 2l,491--in all 50,126, the medium whereof is 25,063;
and there died out of the same in the said two years, 5,630 and
8,397--in all 14,027, the medium whereof is 7,013.
3. There entered in the said years into La Charite 2,647 and 3,118,
in all 5,765, the medium whereof is 2,882, whereof there died 338
and 452, in all 790, the medium whereof is 395.
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