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jour' own, while they attempt to difcover ufeful 
truth* I prefume to lay before you, a great mafter of 
the fubjedl on which I write, fome hints relating to 
what has been publifhed, and hope to give, as has 
been d eh red (i), a little further light, by what I 
have obferved'from my own parifh for 24 years pah, 
having noted the particular ages of 1700 perfons 
buried in that time (2), from the London bills, 
more efpecially on the age of ico years, and up- 
wards, and from the accounts of every other place I 
could procure. I fhall mention at prefent a few lead- 
ing points only, and thofe as briefly as I can, fenfibie 
of your ability to trace their confequences, and pre- 
fent them as they occur to mind, on view of your 
table and difcourfe in the Philofophical Tranfadlions 
Vol. XLIX. p. 1 6y. 
Comparing the burials of London and Breflau,' 
you fay 8110 die at London, and 202 at Breflau, 
under 2 years of age. I acknowlege it not only 
yours, but a current opinion, taken as a firft prin- 
ciple, that at Breflau about f of thofe that are born- 
die under that age; and the place has been cele- 
brated for its healthfulnefs, for the fuccefsful care of 
infants in particular, and for the good confutation 
and longevity of its inhabitants in general, a place 
much envied, and much contended for. Now I 
grant, that the numbers 14 y and 57 make 202; and 
that 1000 202 = 75)8, which hand in the third . 
(1) Richards’ Annuities on Lives, 1730, pref. iii. Dr Era- 
kenridge, Phil. Tranf. Vol. XLIX. p. 172, 
(2) Intending, if I fhould live, to pubiilh them, with extracts 
from the regiflers for 200 years, and the rcfult of the number of 
inhabitants twice taken from houfe to houfe. 
year. 
