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the fatality of this terrible disease has abated, for the 

 deaths by the small-pox from 1780 to 1785 inclusive only 

 amount to one-seventh and a half of the whole number of 

 burials registered at the collegiate church. . . . 



'Accordingly we find that, as our town has increased, 

 the proportion of deaths at ages above seventy has de- 

 creased. During two periods of five years each the 

 number of deaths of persons above that age will appear 

 from the following table. 



Table containing the different number of deaths of persons above the 

 age of 'seventy -, in two periods of five years each. 



From 1776 to 1780 inclusive. 



From 70 to 80 212 



,, 80 ,, 90 101 



,, 90 100 j6 



329 



From 1781 to 1785 inclusive. 

 From 70 to 80 . . . . 226 



80,, 90 114 



90 100 19 



359" 



'The number in the former period is as 1-7 to 9*3 ; 

 whereas that in the latter is only as 1*5 to 11*5 of the whole 

 of registered funerals. (This is not very clear, but the 

 meaning is that the number 226 in the second era ought 

 to have been 231. But observe the figure for 90-100; it 

 is 19, whereas the number ought to have been 17*4 if the 

 proportion had remained ; there is here an increase.) 



' But injurious as large towns may be to the duration of 

 life, and though it must be granted that by annually 

 draining the country of a number of inhabitants, they 

 consume many lives, which, in their original situation, 



