8. Now, if 60 French livres per annum for each of the said 4,197
sick persons were added to the present ordinary expense of that
hospital (amounting to an addition of 251,820 livres), it seems that
so many lives might be saved as are worth above ten times that sum,
and this by doing a manifest deed of charity to mankind.
Memorandum.--That A.D. 1685, the burials of London were 23,222, and
those of Amsterdam 6,245; from whence, and the difference of air, it
is probable that the people of London are quadruple to those of
Amsterdam.
OBSERVATIONS UPON THE CITIES OF LONDON AND ROME
1. That before the year 1630 the christenings at London exceeded
the burials of the same, but about the year 1655 they were scarce
half; and now about two-thirds.
2. Before the restoration of monarchy in England, A.D. 1660, the
people of Paris were more than those of London and Dublin put
together, whereas now, the people of London are more than those of
Paris and Rome, or of Paris and Rouen.
3. A.D. 1665 one fifth part of the then people of London, or
97,000, died of the plague, and in the next year, 1666, 13,000
houses, or one fifth part of all the housing of London, were burnt
also.
4. At the birth of Christ old Rome was the greatest city of the
world, and London the greatest at the coronation of King James II.,
and near six times as great as the present Rome, wherein are 119,000
souls besides Jews.
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