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and 1752, that the number of perfons vlfited with the 
Imalhpox, in the natural way, was 16047, which 
1858 died j and that in 1752, the number of thofe 
who received the infedion by inoculation, before mer- 
cury was made ufe of in Bofton in inoculation, amount- 
ed to 2113 perfons, of which 30 died (blacks in both 
being included) j granting that thofe who had the 
difeafe in the natural way flood an equal chance for 
life with thofe who were inoculated, it appears that, 
in thofe three years, there died 1831, in the town of 
Bofton only, for want of inoculation j by which 
deaths, according to the longed; term of doubling 
the number of inhabitants in America, in one cen- 
tury from thofe periods, the number will be dimi- 
niflied by 29,296, which is (from the beft calculation 
I am able to make) a number far fuperior to thofe 
who came from Europe, into the New England co- 
lonies, from their fiifl fettlement, to this prefent 
day. 
Various fea-port towns, as well as fome inland 
places, have been vifited with the fmall-pox, fince 
the firfl fettlement of the New England colonies, by 
which many have died ; perhaps, taken colledively, 
not more than one in four have recovered, partly 
owing to removing the fick, in order to prevent com- 
municating the infedion ; and partly to the want of 
fkilful phyficians, and faithful experienced nurfes to 
attend the fick, which often obliged to make ufe of 
fome of the mod abandoned wretches, for want of 
fuitable perfons who had had the fmall-pox, to per- 
form that fervice. 
It is much regretted by many, that the pradice of 
inoculation may not- be tolerated, in the New 
England colonies, and regulated by laws, well adapted 
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