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Observations on the Bills of Mortality for 

 the 'Towns of Manchester and Salford ; by 

 Thomas Henry, F.R. S. Acad. PhiloJ. Amer.i 

 Philadel. j Med. Lond. & Phyfic. Edinb. Soc. 



READ JANUARY iS, 1 7 86. 



IN the year 1773, Several perfons, many of 

 whom are now Members of this Society, 

 fubfcribedj for the purpofe of obtaining an ac- 

 curate account of the ftate of the population of 

 the towns of Manchefter and Salford*, which 

 fhould contain the number of houfes, families, 

 males, females, &c. The refult of this in- 

 quiry, which was inftituted with a view to the 

 opinion, at that time propagated, of the gene- 

 ral decline of population in the kingdom, proved 

 that, inftead of being diminiflied, as was fuppofed 

 to be the cafe with the inhabitants of London, 

 the number of perfons, refiding in Manchefter 

 and Salford, was greatly increafed : that the 



• Manchefter and Salford, though diftindl tovvnftiips, 

 are only fcparaied by the river Irwel, and communicate 

 by means of feveral bridges. In the year 1757 the num- 

 ber of inhabitants was no more than 19839. 



number 



