of the Weflminfler General Difpenfary. 
table of the chance of life from infancy to 26 years of age. 
Age. 
Perfons 
living. 
Deere a fe 
of life. 
0 
54 °° 
2250 
5 in 12. 
2 
SIS 0 
450 
6 in-' 12, or r in 7 of the furvivors. 
4 
6 
27OO 
180 
8 in 15, or 1 in 15 of the furvivors. 
2^20 
204 
4 in 7, or 1 in 1 2 and § of the furvivors. 
8 
2313 
6 in io, or i in 15 of the furvivors. 
18 
26 
2l6o. 
1620 
■540 
7 in 10, or 1 in 4 of the furvivors. 
3780 or feven-tenths would die. 
1 62a or three- tenths- would be living at the end of 2.6 years*' 
5400 
Whether this mode of calculating the chance of life will be 
admitted by gentlemen who have made {peculations of this 
kind their peculiar ftudy, I know not., I confefs, that when I 
firft thought of it, I expected it would have proved more cer- 
tain and accurate than upon examination I have found it to be r 
for, although in the firft feties of years, where the deaths are- 
numerous, the proportions agree tolerably well with the tables- 
of M, buffqn and others, yet as we advance we -find ourfeives 
obliged to take longer periods than two years. Thus, for in- 
flan ce, we may obferve, that although from 2 to 4, from 4 to, 6, 
and from 6 to. 8 years of age, the decreafe continues to go on. ; 
yet fo far is this from being the cafe between the ages of 8 and 
10, or even 12, that there then appears to be fiome trifling in- 
creafe. But as the proportion of deaths from 8 to 10 or 12 Is 
probably inconfiderable, a very fmall deduction from the deaths; 
In the earlier years would rectify this difference. A deviation, 
•of this kind, I prefume, might be occafioned by the fmall-pox,. 
