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the burials may have diminifhed, by deaths in the 
ariny and navy during the. war; it did not {trike me, 
ona ftri& examination of the feveral annual returns, 
that there was any difference worth notice between 
the burials of males in the firft and laft five years, 
and the excefs, upon the whole, is only 10g. males 
more than females buried, or about 1 male in 11 of 
the whole increafe. 
Having thus ftated the fact of increafed popula- 
tion, I beg leave to add the grounds on which it 
appears to me to have taken place, in the feveral 
parifhes compofing the abftraé, and probably has 
produced a fimilar increafe throughout the kingdom. 
Firft, the introdution of inoculation, which be- 
gan to be much praétifed about forty years fince, 
and now generally prevails through all ranks, at all 
feafons of the year; and as great numbers of lives 
have doubtlefs been progreflively preferved from the 
fatal effects of the fmall-pox; even thofe who were 
infants thirty years fince, have for ten years paft been 
adding new births to the population; and it may be 
expected, that a greater increafe will take place in 
the next, than has happened the preceding ten 
years, from the fame caufe. In addition to this 
great fource, 1 can ftate with certainty, as a fecond 
caufe, that within the parifhes here noted, a great 
change has taken place within. thefe twenty years 
paft, with refpeé to the manner of hiring and em- 
ploying farm fervants. In former times, the plough- 
men 
