4. Now, if there died out of L'Hotel Dieu 7,013 per annum, and that
the proportion of those that died out of L'Hotel Dieu is double to
those that died out of La Charite (as by the above numbers it
appears to be near thereabouts), then it follows that half the said
numbers of 7,013, being 3,506, did not die by natural necessity, but
by the evil administration of that hospital.
5. This conclusion seemed at the first sight very strange, and
rather to be some mistake or chance than a solid and real truth; but
considering the same matter as it appeared at London, we were more
reconciled to the belief of it, viz.:-
(a.) In the Hospital of St. Bartholomew in London, there was sent
out and cured in the year 1685, 1,764 persons, and there died out of
the said hospital 252. Moreover, there were sent out and cured out
of St. Thomas's Hospital 1,523, and buried, 209--that is to say,
there were cured in both hospitals 3,287, and buried out of both
hospitals 461, and consequently cured and buried 3,748, of which
number the 461 buried is less than an eighth part; whereas at La
Charite the part that died was more than an eighth part; which shows
that out of the most poor and wretched hospitals of London there
died fewer in proportion than out of the best in Paris.
(b.) Furthermore, it hath been above shown that there died out of La
Charite at a medium 395 per annum, and 141 out of Les Incurables,
making in all 536; and that out of St.
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