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Concerning the number of people in London, as also in Paris, Rouen,
and Rome, viz.:-
Monsieur Auzout allegeth an authentic account that there are 23,223
houses in Paris, wherein do live about eighty thousand families, and
therefore supposing three and a half families to live in every of
the said houses, one with another, the number of families will be
81,280; and Monsier Auzout also allowing six heads to each family,
the utmost number of people in Paris, according to that opinion,
will be 487,680.
The medium of the Paris burials was not denied by Monsier Auzout to
be 19,887, nor that there died 3,506 unnecessarily out of the
L'Hotel Dieu; wherefore deducting the said last number out of the
former, the net standard for burials at Paris will be 16,381, so, as
the number of people there, allowing but one to die out of thirty
(which is more advantageous to Paris than Monsieur Auzout's opinion
of one to die out of twenty-five) the number of people at Paris will
be 491,430 more than by Monsier Auzout's own last-mentioned account
491,430.
And the medium of the said two Paris accounts is 488,055.
The medium of the London burials is really 23,212, which, multiplied
by thirty (as hath been done for Paris), the number of the people
there will be 696,360.
The number of houses at London appears by the register to be
105,315, whereunto adding one-tenth part of the same, or 10,315, as
the least number of double families that can be supposed in London,
the total of families will be 115,840, and allowing six heads for
each family, as was done for Paris, the total of the people at
London will be 695,076.
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