Bartholomew's and St.
Thomas's Hospitals, London, there died at a medium but 461, of which
Les Incurables are part; which shows that although there be more
people in London than in Paris, yet there went at London not so many
people to hospitals as there did at Paris, although the poorest
hospitals at London were better than the best at Paris; which shows
that the poorest people at London have better accommodation in their
own houses than the best hospital of Paris affordeth.
6. Having proved that there die about 3,506 persons at Paris
unnecessarily, to the damage of France, we come next to compute the
value of the said damage, and of the remedy thereof, as follows,
viz., the value of the said 3,506 at 60 livres sterling per head,
being about the value of Argier slaves (which is less than the
intrinsic value of people at Paris), the whole loss of the subjects
of France in that hospital seems to be 60 times 3,506 livres
sterling per annum, viz., 210,360 livres sterling, equivalent to
about 2,524,320 French livres.
7. It hath appeared that there came into L'Hotel Dieu at a medium
25,063 per annum, or 2,089 per mensem, and that the whole stock of
what remained in the precedent months is at a medium about 2,108 (as
may appear by the third line of the Table No. 5, which shall be
shortly published), viz., the medium of months is 2,410 for the
sickly year 1679, whereunto 1,806 being added as the medium of
months for the year 1678, makes 4,216, the medium whereof is the
2,108 above mentioned; which number being added to the 2,089 which
entered each month, makes 4,197 for the number of sick which are
supposed to be always in L'Hotel Dieu one time with another.
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