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the true proportion, may, perhaps, be that the num- 
ber of Dillenters is confiderably lefTened. The 
Foundling Hofpital alfo may have contributed a little 
to this event, by leflening the number given in the 
bills as having died under 10, without taking off any 
from the births ; for all that die in this hofpital are 
buried at Pa 7 icrafs church, which is not within the 
bills^ See the preface to a coliedlion of the yearly 
. bills of mortality from to 1758 inclufive, p. 15. 
I will add, that it is probable that London is now 
become lefs fatal to children than it was j and that 
this is a further circumflance which muff reduce the 
difference I have mentioned ; and which is likewifo 
neceffiry to be joined to the greater deficiencies in the 
births, in order to account for the very fmall propor- 
tion of children who furvived 10 years of age, during 
thetwofirfl of the periods I have fpecified. Since 1752,, 
London has been thrown more open. The cuftom of 
keeping country-houfes, and of fending children to bo 
nuried in the country, has prevailed more. But, 
particularly, the deftrudlive ufe of fpirituous liquors 
among the poor has been checked. 
I have fhewn that in London, even in its prefent 
them have funk from 8,672 to 5,432, and are now lower than, 
they were before the year 1660. In Weftminfter, on the con- 
trary, and the 25 out-parifhes in Middlefex and Surrey, the an- 
nual burials have, fince 1660, advanced from about 4000 to 
16,000. Thefe fa£ts prove that the inhabitants of Lon- 
don are how much lefs crowded together than they were. It 
appears, in particular, that within the walls the inhabitants take 
as much room to live upon as double their number did formerly. 
The very fame conclufions may be drawn from an examina- 
tion of the chrijienings, 
ftate^ 
