DEATHS IN PHILADELPHIA. 1803. 407 



Deaths in each Month, of the foregoing period. 



Adults. Child. Adults. Child 



The foregoing Statements were drawn up with as much accuracy as possible, from the 

 Returns given to the Board, from Physicians and others. Any suggestions, for future im- 

 provements, will be thankfully received. 



By reference to the Census taken by order of Congress, we 

 find the population of the City and Liberties of Philadelphia, 

 and that part of the county connected with the preceding Bills 

 of Mortality, to have been as follows : 



A new Census will be taken in 1810. — The present popu- 

 lation may be safely estimated at 100000, or upwards. 



The population of the State of Pennsylvania, by the same 

 Census, appears to have kept pace with that of the City &c. 

 1790.. ..434373 . 1800.. ..602373 



No. LXI. 



An Account of Experiments made on Palladium, found in combi- 

 nation with pure Gold. By Joseph Cloud, an Officer in the Mint 

 of the United States. 



Read June 23d, 1809. 



NOTWITHSTANDING the numerous experiments that 

 have been made by several eminent chemists, on a metallic 

 substance, discovered by Doctor Wollaston, in combination with 

 crude platinum, and by him called palladium ; there still re- 



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