364 Dr. bland*s Midwifery Reports 
buried their children before the end of two months. Of this 
number 53, or 5 in 8, were boys, and 32 girls. 
This fmgular circumftance of there being a greater number 
of males than females among the hill-born children, and of a 
greater number of male children dying in infancy than of 
females, has been remarked by Dr. price and other writers on, 
calculations ; and Dr. haygarth *' has Ihewn that at Cheher 
more hufbands die in a given period than wives. This natu- 
rally fuggefts an enquiry, whether the lives of males are at all 
ages more precarious than thole of females^ 
To be enabled to affift in anfwering this queflion, I have 
added the following article to my regiher, viz. of the children 
that fhall be living at the time the women apply for their letters, 
how many will be boys, and how many girls ? 
Observations on the bills of mortality in Chefter for the year 177 
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