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VII. An Account of the Births and Burials 
with the Number of the Inhabitants at 
Stoke- Damerell in the County of Devon. 
Communicated by the ( $e' Verend Mr . Barrow. 
S Everal Accounts of Births and Burials having 
been publifhed for the Satisfaction of the Curi- 
ous; the following, which in one Refpe£t (the 
Number of Inhabitants) is more particular than molt 
I have feen, will, I hope, be acceptable to the Publick. 
A Survey being taken about Michaelmas 1 733, 
of the Inhabitants of Stoke Earner ell in the County 
of ‘Devon, the Number of Perfons, Men, Women, 
and Children, refiding in the Parilh, amounted to 
3361. By the Regifter, I find that in the fame 
Year, 28 Couple were married, 61 Males and 61 
Females baptized, and 6 2 People buried, 
Bapized. Buried. Number of People. 
122. 62. 3361. 
Whence it appears that the Number of Perfons 
who died, is one more than half the Number of 
Children born ; and that about 1 in 5*4 died. 
It is to be obferved, that the General Fever, 
which almoft all the Inhabitants of the fame Place 
were ill of at the fame time, was in part within the 
Year mentioned : alfo that one of the Perfons in- 
cluded in the Number of thofe buried, was a Fo- 
reigner brought from on board a Dutch Ship in the 
River; and that 2 more were drowned from on 
board a Man of War; but the Ships Companies 
are not included in the Number of the Inhabitants. 
Not from this Account only, but from Experience 
and Obfervations, both of my felf and better Judges* 
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