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bourhood I found that out of 29 who had the difeafe, 
12 died, or about 2 in 5 ; in others the mortality was 
ftili greater, and I have reafon to believe it was not 
lefs on the whole. It may perhaps be worthy of 
obfervation that the proportion of females who died, 
to males, was nearly as three to two. While we 
lament the feverity of the fcourge with which we 
have been afflicted, we cannot but highly regret, that a 
practice, which experience has eftabiifhed as fo effec- 
tual a fecurity againft it, was fo little followed. Not 
ten, I believe, were inoculated in the whole town 
and neighbourhood: thefe all did weil, yet their ex- 
ample was not fufficient to overcome fome accidental 
prejudices taken againft it. Indeed, the poor, who 
were the chief fufferers in this calamity, befides 
thefe prejudices, might be deterred by the idea of 
expence attending this branch of medical affiftance. 
But if the opulent and charitable would refleCt how 
exceedingly ufeful their benefactions directed to this 
point would be, that, by a proper encouragement of 
this practice the lives of 200 of the riling generation 
might in all human probability have been faved to the 
public in the courfe of one year, the regret of having 
loft fuch an opportunity of doing good, would, I 
hope, be fucceeded by fuitable refolutions for fome 
future occafion. It would be eafy to fuggeft a plan 
for promoting the practice of inoculation at a very 
moderate expence ; and, I am perfuaded, the talk of 
engaging the afliflance of the faculty, would be the 
leaf!: difficult part. 
With refpeCt to the general Table of Difeafes, the 
obvious uncertainty and inaccuracy of an enquiry 
which, in moft cafes, could only be made by the 
clerk 
