The medium of the two last London accounts is 695,718.
So, as the people of Paris, according to the above account, is
488,055.
Of Rouen, according to Monsieur Auzout's utmost demands 80,000.
Of Rome, according to his own report thereof in a former letter
125,000.
Total 693,055.
So as there are more people at London than at Paris, Rouen, and Rome
by 2,663.
Memorandum.--That the parishes of Islington, Newington, and Hackney,
for which only there is any colour of non-contiguity, is not one-
fifty-second part of what is contained in the bills of mortality,
and consequently London, without the said three parishes, hath more
people than Paris and Rouen put together, by 114,284.
Which number of 114,284 is probably more people than any other city
of France contains.
THE SECOND ESSAY.
As for other comparisons of London with Paris, we farther repeat and
enlarge what hath been formerly said upon those matters, as
followeth, viz.:-
1. That forty per cent. die out of the hospitals at Paris where so
many die unnecessarily, and scarce one-twentieth of that proportion
out of the hospitals of London, which have been shown to be better
than the best of Paris.
2. That at Paris 81,280 kitchens are within less than 24,000
street-doors, which makes less cleanly and convenient way of living
than at London.
3. Where the number of christenings are near unto, or exceed the
burials, the people are poorer, having few servants and little
equipage.
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