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VI. Obfervaiions on the Bill of Mortality , in 
Chefter, for the Tear 1772. By DoBor 
Haygarth. 
rious difeafes molt fatal to mankind, at different 
ages, mufl evidently be of the mod important 
confequence, to the politician, the philofopher, and 
the phyfician, in their feveral endeavours to re- 
lieve the miferies, and promote the happinefs of 
human nature. 
A writer, of diftinguifhed abilities in political 
arithmetic, has offered many arguments, which 
give too much caufe to apprehend, that England, 
in about 70 years, has loft near a quarter of her 
people. Accurate regifters of mortality, with other 
collateral inquiries, can, with moft certainty, con- 
firm or confute- this opinion, and determine a ques- 
tion, of the moft ftriking importance to our very 
exiftence as a nation. 
The dodtrine of annuities for widows, and other 
perfons in old age, the value of reverfionary pay- 
ments, and of aflurances on lives, and other im- 
portant queftions in civil fociety, can only be de- 
termined by faithful regifters, (hewing the dura- 
Redde, Nov. 18, 
1772. 
-Faithful and minute regiftef 
of mortality, and of the va- 
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