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dent. The ulcerous fore throat, which prevailed 
here in the year 1770, is the only epidemic, which 
has appeared in Manchefter, with any fatal degree 
of violence, for many years. Miliary fevers, 
which were formerly frequent in this town and 
neighbourhood, now rarely occur; and, if I may 
judge from my own experience, the natural fmall 
pox, for inoculation is not much pradrifed here, 
carries off a much fmaller proportion, of thofe who 
are attacked by it, than is commonly fuppoled. 
Puerperal difeafes alfo decreafe every year amongft 
us, by the judicious method of treating women in 
child- bed; and, as nature is now more -confulted 
in the management of infants, it is reafonable to 
fuppofe, that this muft be favourable to their 
health and prefervation. 
But it muft be acknowledged, that large towns 
are injurious to population ; and the advantages I 
have enumerated, which, in hamlets or country 
villages, would have operated, with full force, to 
the benefit of mankind, have only ferved to check 
the deftruclive tendency of the accumulation of 
inhabitants in Manchefter. In the Pais de Vaud, 
a diftridt of the province of Bern in Switzerland, 
and in a country parifh in Brandenburgh, 1 in 45 
of the inhabitants dies annually; and at Stoke 
Damarell in Devonfhire, 1 in 54 \_d j ; whereas, in 
this town, the yearly mortality appears to be 1 in 
28; in Leverpool 1 in 27; and in London 1 in 
2f. Half the children, who are born in Manches- 
ter, die under five years old ; and the proportion, 
[<s?] See the Treatife, before referred to, on Reverfionary Pay- 
ments, by my learned friend Dr. Price. 
I 2 which 
