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The following table is formed from the regifter 
of burials and baptifms at the collegiate or panfh 
church in Manchefter, and gives the annual 
number of each, on an average. 
Burials. Baptifms. 
From 1580 to 
1587 inclufive, 
I 84 
1680 
1687 
286 
5 ' 
1 720 
J 7 2 7 
359 
*754 
1760 
73 6 
7 6 9 
1761 
■ 7 6 5 
73 1 
8 43 
1766 
1770 
870 
970 
But it fhould be remarked, that this account 
does not include the deaths, or births, amongft the 
Diffenters. Thefe, by a late improvement in our 
bills of mortality, are now admitted into the parifh 
regifter, and laffc year, 1772, •’he former amounted 
to 50, the latter to 181. Admitting thefe to be 
the average of unregiftered baptifms and burials 
in Manchester, the annual medium of deaths, from 
1768 to 1772 inclufive, will be 958. And the 
.annual births, during the fame period, with the 
like allowance, will be 1098. Hence the prefent 
proportion, of annual deaths ro the inhabitants, is 
nearly as 1 to 28 .4 ; and, of births to the inha- 
bitants, almofl as 1 to 25. The births alfo, it ap- 
pears, exceed the burials 140 every year, at a 
medium. 
The rapid growth of Matichefter is fufficiently 
evident from the preceding facts. Yet lever- 
pool, during the famelpaceof time, has increafed 
3 m 
