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general bill, and quarterly or annually published. It is of 

 importance that the still-born children, and those who die 

 before baptism, should also be registered ; and the mid- 

 wives should be desired to deliver an account of them. 

 Perhaps the sextons may assist in ascertaining their 

 number, as they are usually interred in churchyards, or 

 other public burial grounds. 



' II. Let the table of christenings specify the males and 

 females who are baptised ; and the table of deaths express 

 the males who die, under the several denominations of 

 children, bachelors, married men, and widowers ; the 

 females who die, under the corresponding denominations of 

 children, maidens, married women, and widows. 



* III. An observance of these distinctions will determine 

 the comparative number of males and females who are born ; 

 the difference between the sexes in the expectation of life ; 

 and the proportion which the annual births, deaths, and 

 marriages bear to each other. Thus by the Bills of Mor- 

 tality which have been kept at Vienna, Breslau, Dresden, 

 Leipsic, Ratisbon, and other towns in Germany, it appears 

 that the proportion of males to the females who are born 

 is as 19 to 18. But the proportion of boys to girls who 

 die under ten years of age is as 7 to 6 ; and of married 

 men to married women in Breslau as 5 to 3, in Dresden 

 as 4 to I. At Vevey, in Switzerland, for twenty years, 

 ending in 1764, there died in the first month 135 males 

 to 89 females ; and in the first year 225 to 162. The 

 same accounts show likewise that, both at Vevey and 

 Berlin, the still-born males are to the still-born females 

 as 30 to 21. In the parish of Holy Cross, Salop, an 

 account was taken by the vicar, A.D. 1760, of the number 

 of males and females of the age of seventy and upwards. 



