Ch. viii. in England. 409 



than from the superior degree of luxury and de- 

 bauchery usually and justly attributed to towns. 

 A married pair with the best constitutions, who 

 lead the most regular and quiet life, seldom find 

 that their children enjoy the same health in towns 

 as in the country. 



In London, according to former calculations y 

 one half of the born died under three years of 

 age ; in Vienna and Stockholm under two ; in 

 Manchester under five; in Norwich under five : in 

 Northampton under ten.* In country villages, 

 on the contrary, half of the born live till thirty, 

 thirty-five, forty, forty-six, and above. In the 

 parish of Ackworth, in Yorkshire, it appears, 

 from a very exact account kept by Dr. Lee of the 

 ages at which all died therefor 20 years, that half 

 of the inhabitants live to the age of 46 jrj" and 

 there is little doubt, that, if the same kind of 

 account had been kept in some of those parishes 

 before mentioned, in which the mortality is so 

 small as 1 in 60, 1 in 66, and even 1 in 75, half of 

 the born would be found to have lived to 50 or 55. 



As the calculations respecting the ages to which 

 half of the born live in towns depend more upon 

 the births and deaths which appear in the regis- 

 ters, than upon any estimates of the number of 

 people, they are on this account less liable to 

 uncertainty, than the calculations respecting the 



* Price's Observ. on Rcvers. Puyui. vol. i. p. 26*4— 2G6. 4th 

 edit. 



t Id. vol. i. p, 268. 



