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part of it will probably, in a fhort time, be in- 
cluded in Manchester. It contains 311 houfes ; 
361 families; 947 males; 958 females; 656 mar- 
ried perfons ; 21 widowers ; 42 widows ; 763 under 
15 years of age ; and 222 above 50. 
it is pleafing to obferve, that, notwithftanding 
the enlargement of Manchefter, there has been a 
fenfible improvement, in the healthinefs and lon- 
gevity of its inhabitants ; for the proportion of 
deaths is now confiderably lefs, than in 1757. But 
this is chiefly to be afcribed, as Dr. ph ice hasjuftly 
obferved [c], to the large acceflion of new fettlers 
from the country. For as thefe ufually come in 
the prime of life, they muft raife the proportion 
of inhabitants to the deaths, and alio of births 
and weddings to the burials, higher than they 
would otherwife be. However, excluflve of this 
confideration, there is good reafon to believe, that 
Manchefter is more healthy now than formerly. 
The new ftreets are wide and fpacious, the poor s 
have larger and more commodious dwellings, and 
the increafe of trade affords them better cloathing 
and diet, than they before enjoyed. I may add 
too, that the late improvements in medicine have 
been highly favourable to the prefervation of life. 
The cool regimen in fevers, and in the fmall pox, 
the free admiffion of air, attention to cleanlinefs, 
and the general ufe of antifeptic remedies and diet, 
have certainly mitigated the violence, and leflened 
the mortality of fome of the moll dangerous and 
malignant diftempers, to which mankind are inci- 
[V] See a mofl: valuable Treatife on Reverlionary Payments,, 
g. 188, thir<i edition, 
dent. 
