278 Of the Checks to Population Bk. ii. 



furnished Dr. Price with a continuation of these 

 tables; and an average of 21 years gives a result 

 of 1 to 34f , nearly the same.* This is undoubtedly 

 a very great mortality, considering the large pro- 

 portion of the population in Sweden which is em- 

 ployed in agriculture. It appears, from some 

 calculations in Cantzlaer's account of Sweden, 

 that the inhabitants of the towns are to the inha- 

 bitants of the country only as 1 to 13 ;f whereas in 

 well-peopled countries the proportion is often as 

 1 to 3, or above. % The superior mortality of towns 

 therefore cannot much affect the general propor- 

 tion of deaths in Sweden. 



The average mortality of villages according to 

 Sussmilch is 1 in 40.§ In Prussia and Pomerania, 

 which include a number of great and unhealthy 

 towns, and where the inhabitants of the towns 

 are to the inhabitants of the country as 1 to 4, the 

 mortality is less than 1 in 37. || The mortality in 

 Norway, as has been mentioned before, is 1 in 48, 

 which is in a very extraordinary degree less than 

 in Sweden, though the inhabitants of the towns 

 in Norway bear a greater proportion to the inha- 



* Price's Observ. on Revers. Paym. vol. ii. p. 126, 4th edit. 



f Memoires pour servir a la connoissance des affaires politiques 

 et economiques du Royaume de Suede, 4to. 1776, cL. vi. p. 187. 

 This work is considered as very correct in its information, and is 

 in great credit at Stockholm. 



% Sussmilch's Gottliche Ordnung, vol. i. c. ii. sect, xxxiv. edit. 

 1798. 



§ Id. sect. xxxv. p. 91. 



i| Id. vol. iii. p. 60. 



