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. V. Obfervations on the State of Population 
in Manchefter, and other adjacent Places . 
By Dr. Percival. Communicated by the 
Rev. Dr . Price. 
che'ster, for I am uncertain whether salford 
was included [rz], appears to have been 8000. 
By a furvey, made in 1757, of Manchefter and 
'Salford, the number of inhabitants was found to 
he 19839. And from 1754 to 176: inclu five, the 
number of deaths amounted to 5769. The an- 
nual deaths therefore, at the period of the fur- 
vey, muft have been 721, exclufive of diflenters. 
It is probable, as will appear afterwards, that thele 
would have increafed the number to 771. At 
this time therefore, 1 in 25 .7, of the inhabitants 
ao f Manchefter, died every year. 
[<?] Manchefter and Salford, though diftinguifhed by different 
•names, like London, Weftminfter, and the Borough of South- 
wark, may be confidered as one and the fame town, being 
divided only by a fmaW river, over which two bridges are 
«re<fted. 
ROM an account taken in 1 7 1 7, 
the number of inhabitants in man- 
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