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for notwithstanding the great thinness of people w“ left some 
whole streets uninhabited, a feavor y* begun 1* at the Camp 
and afterwards w” the army removed into the city, made the 
bill increase to almost treble some of y* former years, and 
above 4 as much again as the middle standard. 
cee gihly, Of those above 16 and under 16. 
«« This feavor, as it came in w™ the army, soe it continued 
‘amoungst us, for in y* time y* number of those above 16 out- 
stript those under 16, contrary to y® constant tenor of former 
years, which seems to me a cleare argument y* it was an infec- 
tion y‘ mostly seized y* adult. This appeared in 2 quarterly 
bills since last June, & in y® yearly bill of 1690, for till y* time 
y® odds run on those under 16. 
**¢ Some thought it might have been instructive to com- 
pare the list of y° aged w™ y‘ of the infants, till I observed y* 
y° aged did mightily out-number the infants, whereas it is 
certain in nature y' more dye in their infancy y" live to an 
old age; and y" I concluded noe inferences could be made of 
the proportion of aged to infants, from any thing y‘ appears 
upon our bills, since such only were put upon y° file of in- 
fi nts as dyed w™ out any distemper known to y* women about 
y™, whereas all those y* dyed of teeth, convulsion, fits, worms, 
or other children’s diseases, are put upon those files, and not 
upon y* of infants. . 
— 6 ¢ Bthly, A comparison of burialls with Christnings. 
eS We Petty observes y‘ both in Dublin and in London 
he proportion of christnings to burialls was alike, the christ- 
¥s amounting to $ of y* burialls, whereas in the years we 
ave collected they doe not amount to ;6, nay, not to soe much 
33. Whether the reason of that difference may be the number 
ffanaticks w” christen not their children at all, and of papists, 
, being more numerous in Dublin y" formerly, made use of 
own priests,—and consequently their baptisms did not 
