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forty-one died within the firft month*, which: are in the pro- 
portion of one to fifteen and a half, or from fix to feven in 
the hundred. 
Tuart during a period of five or fix years in the Britith Lying-in 
Hofpital, London, of three thoufand fix. hundred and eleven 
therein born, only one hundred and forty-fix died within the firft 
three weeks or month, which are as one to twenty-five, or four 
in the hundred. 
Taar in the London Lying-in Hofpital I was pofitively affured 
the death of an infant was a rare occurrence. It is there com- 
puted with fome confidence (for I was told that no written account 
is kept) that the number of ftill-born infants far exceeds the 
number of thofe dying after birth. The proportion of ftill-born 
we know to be about a twentieth part, or five in the hundred. 
Tuat near forty years ago, when the difeafes of children were 
lefs underftood, and more efpecially the falutary praCtice of inocu- 
lation, DoGor Short computed from fome very extenfive regifters, 
that London loft thirty-nine per cent. under the age of two years 
—Edinburgh and Northampton thirty-four or thirty-five—Sheffield 
twenty-ceight—country places from twenty to twenty-eight ;— 
whereas in the Dublin hofpital there was loft a number equal 
to half of that loft in many of thefe places, and nearly equal to 
the 
* See the cafe of Mr. Moffe, offered to the confideration of the Irifh Houfe of 
Commons in the year 1755. 
