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be enabled to form a Judgment, whether or no the 
Pradice of Inoculation tends to the Prefervadon of 
Mankind, by leflening the Danger to which they are 
otherwife liable. 
With this View I have confulted the Yearly Bills of 
Mortality, as far back as the Year 1667, being the 
Year after the Plague and the Fire of London^ com- 
prehending to the prefent Time the Space of 5-6 
Years, from 42 of which I have given Extrads in the 
two following Tables. 
The firft ofthefe takes in the hrB xo Years, diftin- 
gliihiing for every Year the total Number of Burials, 
and likewife the Number that died of the Small Pox, in 
two feparate Columns. The third Column Ihews, how 
many died of the Small Pox out of every Thoufand that 
were buried ; and the fourth Column reprelents the 
Proportion between thole that died of the Small Pox, 
and the whole Number of Burials, by the nearell Vul- 
gar Fradion, having always i for the Numerator. 
The lecond Table gives the lafl Years, after the 
fame manner, and at the bottom of each Table is given 
tbe Total Number for each Series of Years, and like- 
wile the Number that died each Y ear, taken at a Me- 
dium, one Year with another : by which it appears, 
that the Proportion between the Number of thofe that 
die of the Small Pox, and the whole Number of Bu- 
rials, is very nearly the lame, upon an Average for 
each Series of Years. 
The 14 intermediate Years between 1686 and 1701 
are left out, becaule in the Bills for thole Years, the 
Accounts of the Small Pox and Mealies are not di- 
llinguillied, as in the preceding and following Years, 
but are join’d together in one Article, lb that from them 
no certain Account can be drawn of the Number of 
Perfons, that died of the Small Pox. 
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