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^latwcftcrly-" winds are by much the mofl prevalent "j'^cTr the 

 two years contained in your paper I find the wcfterly w Inds 

 are to the cafterly as 673 to 258. ^ 



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I Was gl"ad to find by your communication on the bills of 

 ■mortality,, that fo many gentlemen have attended to this mat- 

 ter ; and hope the flock of thefe bills will be much enlarged^ 

 as it is only from a large number, and thofe continued for a 

 courfe of years, that general conclufions can be deduced with 



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any good degree of certainty. And I could wifli that when 



emen are at the trouble* of forming bills of this kind, 



that tliev would be as particular as pofhble ; I think much in- 



formation *mlght be obtained from a mojithly bill, which fliould 



likewife particularize tlie di/ea/es of which each perfon died in 

 eacli month, and the a^'e of the deceafed : this would inform 

 us not only which month was mofl fiital to our fpecies ; but 

 alfo w^'l'iat kind of difeafes were mofl prevalent in each month^ 

 and to what ages the fatality was chiefly confined 5 and theuT 



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Upon the bill of ages whicii you have colleded, I Would 

 obfer-^gj-'that the ifl, the 5th, and 6th periods are the largefl/ 



and that the 3d iff^he leafl, In proportion to the numbers liv- 

 ing ; which faas may, I think, be accounted for thus ; Infancy 

 is an almofl continued flate of ficknefs, and the human body, 



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not havhig yet attained any cbnfiderabk degree of flrength and 



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vigour, many at this period mufl of courfe fuik uiider their 



various maladies : but between i o and 1 5 (the ^^ period) 



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