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for notwithstanding the great thinness of people w* left some 
whole streets uninhabited, a feavor y' begun 1 at the Camp 
and afterwards w™ the army removed into the city, made the 
bill increase to almost treble some of y* former years, and 
above 4 as much again as the middle standard. 
ce ditty, Of those above 16 and under 16. 
«© This feavor, as it came in w™ the army, soe it continued 
amoungst us, for in y‘ time y° number of those above 16 out- 
stript those under 16, contrary to y°® constant tenor of former 
years, which seems to me a cleare argument y‘ it was an infec- 
tion y‘ mostly seized y* adult. This appeared in 2 quarterly 
bills since last June, & in y* yearly bill of 1690, for till y* time 
y® odds run on those under 16. 
*<* Some thought it might have been instructive to com- 
pare the list of y° aged w™ y’ of the infants, till I observed y‘ 
y° aged did mightily out-number the infants, whereas it is 
certain in nature y' more dye in their infancy y" live to an 
old age; and y® I concluded noe inferences could be made of 
the proportion of aged to infants, from any thing y* appears 
upon our bills, since such only were put upon y* file of in- 
fants as dyed w" out any distemper known to y* women about 
y™, whereas all those y* dyed of teeth, convulsion, fits, worms, 
or other children’s diseases, are put upon those files, and not 
upon y* of infants. 
«< ¢ Bihly, A comparison of burialls with Christnings. 
«© <¢ S$ W™ Petty observes y* both in Dublin and in London 
the proportion of christnings to burialls was alike, the christ- 
nings amounting to 3 of y* burialls, whereas in the years we 
have collected they doe not amount to §,, nay, not to soe much 
as#. Whether the reason of that difference may be the number 
of fanaticks w™ christen not their children at all, and of papists, 
w™, being more numerous in Dublin y" formerly, made use of 
their own priests,—and consequently their baptisms did not 
