Penfyhania* Philadelphia. 



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fand, and fince that time their number is incre- 

 dibly encreafed. Neither can it be made out from 

 the Bills of mortality, fince they are not kept 

 regularly in all the churches. I fliall, however, 

 mention fome of thofe which appeared either in 

 the gazettes, or in bills printed on purpofe. 



Year. Dead. Year. Dead. Year. Dead. 



420 

 672; 



75 8 



FROM thefe bills of mortality it alfo appears, 

 that the difeafes which are the mod fatal, are 

 confumptions, fevers, convulfions, pleurifies, 

 haemorrhages, and dropfies. 



THE number of thofe that are born cannot be 

 determined, fince in many churches no order is 

 obferved with regard to this affair. The quakers, 

 who are the moft numerous in this town, never 

 baptize their children, though they take a pretty 

 cxadl account of all who are born among them. 



IT is likewife impoffible tq guefs at the num- 

 ber of inhabitants from the dead, becaufe the 

 town gets fuch great fupplies annually from other 

 countries. In the fummer of the year 1749, near 

 twelve thoufand Germans came over to Philadel- 

 phia, many of whom ftaid in that town. In the 

 fame year the houfes inP/jiladelpbiawzrz counted, 

 and found to be two thoufand andfeventy-fix ir> 

 number. 



THE town is now quite filled with inhabitant?, 

 which in regard to their country, religion, and 

 trade, are very different from each other. You 



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