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The latter amounted to 35, the former only to 8. At 

 Paris and in Sweden it has been observed, that women 

 not only live longer than men, but that married women 

 live longer than single women. And in Switzerland it 

 appears particularly, from the calculations of M. Muret, 

 that of equal numbers of single and married women 

 between the age of 15 and 25, more of the former died 

 than of the latter, in the proportion of 2 to I. 1 



' Let the ages under 5 be specified by single years ; 

 and afterwards by periods of five or ten years. 



' IV. Let the Bills of Mortality contain not only a list 

 of the diseases of which all die, but also express particu- 

 larly the number dying of each disease, in the several 

 divisions of life, and different seasons of the year. To 

 accomplish this, it will be necessary for the physicians of 

 the town to consider the present list of distempers ; to 

 reject all synonymous and obsolete terms ; and to give a 

 short and easy explanation of those which are retained. 

 And whenever a person dies who has been attended by 

 any of the faculty, the physician, surgeon, or apothecary 

 should be desired to certify, in writing, the age and dis- 

 temper of the deceased. 



* The additional trouble which this more comprehensive 

 and accurate register will occasion to the clerks of the 

 several churches, etc., may be compensated by distributing 

 amongst them, at the discretion of any judicious clergy- 

 man, the money which arises from the sale of the quarterly 

 bills. If a hundred of these be subscribed for, or sold at 

 the price of one shilling each, the sum of twenty pounds 

 per annum will thus be raised, without imposing any new 



1 Vide Dr. Price's Obse> vations on Reversionary Payments. 



