278 Mr. J. Barton on the Influence of high and low Prices 



N. B. The moon's phases were, 

 New. June 28th, at 6 h 50 ra a.m. 

 Full. July 12th, 10 49 p.m. 

 New. July 27th, 1 50 p.m. 



Full. Aug. 11th, 2 21 p.m. 



Chapel Allerton, near Leeds, 

 July 24, 1834. 



Hest-bank, mean time. 



John Nixon. 



XXXIX. On the Influence of high and low Prices on the 



Rate of Mortality. By John Barton, Esq.* 

 IN a pamphlet which I published rather more than twelve 

 ■*- months agofj I stated at considerable length the results 

 of an investigation into the influence of high and low prices 

 on the condition of the people, as evidenced by the rate of 

 mortality in the kingdom at large, as well as in our agricul- 

 tural and manufacturing districts separately. These results 

 were deduced from a comparison of the number of burials in 

 the population returns with the price of wheat in each year, 

 from 1780, the commencement of these returns, down to 

 1 820, the returns of the succeeding years not being at that time 

 printed. The subsequent completion of the work enables me 

 now to state the results of fifty years' experience in this matter. 

 At the same time I shall be glad to take the opportunity of 

 saying a few words on an objection which has been urged 

 against my conclusions by a writer in the Edinburgh Re- 

 view. 



The general result of my inquiry respecting the influence 

 of the price of corn on the rate of mortality in the kingdom 

 at large will be seen in the following statement : 



* Communicated by the Author. 



f Entitled, " An Inquiry into the Expediency of the existing Restrictions 

 on the Importation of Foreign Corn." 



