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and -^th of the inhabitants have attained the age of 50'. 
It is unneceflary to point out the difference in the pro- 
portions between the town and the adjacent conn try, as 
it will appear fufhciently obvious by comparing this ac- 
count with that of Manchefler. The wdiole number of 
the inhabitants in the town, townfliip, and pariflr of 
Manchefter amounts to 42937. 
Attheclofe of 1772, an account was colle 61 :ed from 
every country chapel, both epifcopal and diffenting, in the 
parifh, of the baptifms and burials of that year. The for- 
mer were found to amount to 40 1 , the latter to 246 ; and 
there is a prefumption that this is nearly the annual pro- 
portion of deaths in the parifh of Manchefter, exclufi veof 
the town and townfliip. For the number of burials in the 
whole parifh was, in the fame year exaftly 1200; and it 
has been fhewn,that the deaths in the town of Manchef- 
ter are, one year with another, 958. This fum being 
fubtra6fed from 1200, leaves a remainder (242) for the 
country, very nearly equal to 246. And if 13786, the 
number of people in the parifli, be divided by 246, it 
will appear, that only i in 56 of the inhabitants dies 
annually,' whilft the yearly mortality in Manchefter is as 
I to 28. Such a ftriking difparity in the healthinefs of 
a large town, and of the country which farrounds it, 
granting it to be lefsthan has been fuppofed, will fcarcely 
be credited by thofe who have paid no attention to enqui- 
ries of this nature. And it muft afford matter of aftonifli- 
ment even to the phyftcian and philofopher, v/hen he 
reflects that the inhabitants of both live in the fame cli- 
mate, 
