of the Weftminfter General Difpenfary. 357 
4. The number of children they had been able to preferve. 
5. The place or country where they and their hulbands were 
born. 
And after the delivery of the patient I have conftantly noted, 
1. The accidents that attended, or were the confequences 
of parturition. 
2. The fexes of the children delivered. 
3. The number of twins or triplets. 
4. The number of the children that were deficient or mon- 
flrous. 
5. The number of the children that were dead-born : and, 
as the women were enjoined to return their letters as foon as 
they were able to go abroad, I farther intended to have added 
the proportion of the children who died under four or five 
weeks ; but many of the women neglecting this duty, pre- 
vented my information under this head from being fo compleat 
as I could have wifhed. Of thofe, however, who came, or 
of whom certain account could be obtained, the number is fet 
down. 
From the above mentioned regifter the following tables and 
accounts have been compofed ; and as the greateft care and 
exaChiefs were ufed in recording the feveral circumftances, the 
fame punctuality has been obferved in collecting and digefting 
them. And that they might be kept as free from error as 
poflible, tables for each year were firft compofed and com- 
pared together ; but finding 110 material variation, I did not 
think it neceflary to produce them in that form. My firft in- 
tention was to have given the tables fimply, and without any 
explanatory obfervations ; but finding I could not introduce all 
the circumftances I had noted in , my regifter, as was particu- 
larly the cafe with regard to the firft table, and imagining that 
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