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XLIII. The Bill of Mortality of the 'Town of 
Warrington, for the year 1773. By the 
Rev. J. Aikin. Communicated by Dr . 
Percival. 
Rcdd<r, May 19, K | V H E town of WARRINGTON, by 
17 / a the beft account yet procured, 
contains between 1600 and 1700 houfes. At five 
perfons to a houfe, which is fuppofed a fufiicient al- 
lowance, as but few are occupied by more than one 
family, this will give fomewhat above 8000 for the 
number of inhabitants. 
The average of yearly marriages, chriftenings, and 
burials, regiftered in the parifh church, from 1750 
to 1769 inclufive, is. 
Marriages, 
Chriftenings. 
Burials. 
- " - - - 73 
2 37 
l 99 
That for the years 1770, 
258 
1 77 r > 1 77 2 > is > - “ 95 
33 i 
This will ferve to fhow the increafe of the place, 
and its comparative healthinefsj efpecially if we 
confider that the deaths are much more exa&ly re- 
giftered than the births. In the prefent bill, the 
nurnber of children, who died after receiving only 
private 
