i68 Mr. Henry on the Bills, of Mortality 



from 1780 to 1785, inclufive, only amount to 

 one feventh and a half of the whole number of 

 burials, regiftered at the collegiate church. 



Perhaps there is no difeafe the medical treat- 

 ment of which has been more improved than 

 that of the fmall-pox; and, the improvements, 

 fuiting the difpofitions and convenience of the 

 lower clafs of people, have been more fre- 

 quently adopted than might otherwife have been 

 expe6led. But prejudices are not to be over- 

 come at once. Time and experience will, I am 

 convinced, carry convidtion to the breafts of moft 

 men j and the practice of the cool regimen, 

 under proper limitations, the more general prac- 

 tice of inoculation, and the obfervance of fuch 

 regulations, as have been publicly recommended 

 by our truly humane and learned aflbciate. Dr. 

 Haygarth, will, in all probability, tend effec- 

 tually to the farther diminution, if not to the 

 total extiniflion of the ravages of this loathfome, 

 and, too frequently fatal malady. 



Within thefe few years alfo the great altera- 

 tions that have been made in the town, by 

 widening, and providing for the ventilation of 

 the ftreets, together with the commodioufnefs of 

 our modern houfes, &c. may have contributed 

 to reftrain the increafed mortality which might 

 otherwife have been apprehended from its en- 

 largement* : for great towns, it muft be allowed, 

 are unfavourable to the duration of human life. 



• Vide Percival's Effays, vol. III. 



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