406 Of the Checks to Population Bk. ii. 



which Dr. Short took, included some considerable 

 epidemics, which may possibly have been above 

 the usual proportion. But sickly seasons should 

 always be included, or we shall fall into great 

 errors. In 1056 villages of Brahdenburgh, which 

 Sussmilch examined, the mortality for six good 

 years was 1 in 43; for 10 mixed years about 1 in 

 38-l* In the villages of England which Sir F. M. 

 Eden mentions, the mortality seems to be about 1 

 in 47 or 48 ;| and in the late returns pursuant to 

 the Population Act, a still greater degree of health- 

 iness appears. Combining these observations to- 

 gether, if we take 1 in 46 or 1 in 48, as the average 

 mortality of the agricultural part of the country, 

 including sickly seasons, this will be the lowest 

 that can be supposed with any degree of proba- 

 bility. But this proportion will certainly be raised 

 to 1 in 40, when we blend it with the mortality 

 of the towns and the manufacturing part of the 

 community, in order to obtain the average for the 

 whole kingdom. 



The mortality in London, which includes so 

 considerable a part of the inhabitants of this 

 country, was, according to Dr. Price, at the time 

 he made his calculations, 1 in 20| ; in Norwich 1 

 in 24 ; in Northampton 1 in 26-§-; in Newbury 

 1 in 27 J \% in Manchester 1 in 28; in Liverpool 1 

 in 27i,<§ &c. He observes that the number dying 



* Gottliche Ordnung, vol. i. c. ii. s. xxi. p. 74. 

 •f Estimate of the Number of Inhabitants in G. Britain. 

 X Price's Observ. on Revers. Paym. vol. i. note, p. 272. 

 § Id. vol. ii. First additional Essay, note, p. 4 K 



