412 Of the Checks to Population Bk. ii. 



births to the population was calculated at 1 to 

 30. For the whole of Suffolk, according to the 

 late returns, this proportion is not much less than 

 1 to 33.* According to a correct account of thir- 

 teen villages from actual enumerations, produced 

 by Sir F. M. Eden, the proportion of births to 

 the population was as 1 to 33 ; and according 

 to another account on the same authority, taken 

 from towns and manufacturing parishes, as 1 to 

 27-|.t If, combining all these circumstances, and 

 adverting at the same time to the acknowledged 

 deficiency in the registry of births, and the known 

 increase of our population of late years, we sup- 

 pose the true proportion of the births to the popu- 

 lation to be as 1 to 30 ; then assuming the pre- 

 sent mortality to be 1 in 40, as before suggested, 

 we shall nearly keep the proportion of baptisms 

 to burials which appears in the late returns. The 

 births will be to the deaths as 4 to 3 or 13-L to 10, 

 a proportion more than sufficient to account for 

 the increase of population which has taken place 

 since the American war, after allowing for those 

 who may be supposed to have died abroad. 



* In private inquiries, dissenters and those who do not christen 

 their children, will not of course be reckoned in the population j 

 consequently such inquiries, as far as they extend, will more accu- 

 rately express the true proportion of births ; and we are fairly 

 justified in making use of them, in order to estimate the acknow- 

 ledged deficiency of births in the public returns. 



t Estimate of the Number of Inhabitants in Great Britain, &c. 

 p. 27. 



