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mate, carry on the fame maniifa6Lures, and are chiefly 
lupplied with provifions from the fame market. But his 
furprize will give place to concern and regret, when he 
obferves the havoc produced in every large town by 
luxury, irregularity, and intemperance ; the numbers 
that fall annual victims to the contagious diftempers, 
w'hich never ceafe to prevail; and the pernicious influ- 
ence of confinement, uncleanlinefs, and foul ah on the 
duration of lifer^>’. 
It is not air, but floats a naufeous mafs 
“ Of all obfcene, corrupt, offenfive things.” 
ARMSTRONG Oil Health, book I. 
Great towns are in a peculiar degree fatal to children. 
Half of all that are born in London die under three, 
and in Manchefler under five years of age ; whereas at 
Roy ton, a manufa6turing townfliip in the neighbour- 
hood of Manchefler, the number of children dying un- 
der the age of three years, is to the number of children 
born only as one to feven; and at Eaflham, a parifli in 
(a) There are at this time in Manchefler no lefs than 103 llcenred hnufes 
for retailing fpirituous and other liquors, and 64 in the other townfhips of the 
parifli. At Bii'iningham, the number of public houfes Is flill greater than at 
Manchefler. A very ingenious friend of mine in that place has computed, that 
the quantity of malt confumed there in tlie public houfes, requires for its growth, 
a coTipafs of land which would be fufficient for the fupportof 26,000 men. 
(b) The I'ev. Dr. Tucker, dean of Gloucefler, informs me, “ That were it 
“ not for the daily arrival of recruits from the country, his parifli (St. Stephen’s 
“ in Briflol), and indeed Briflol in gt-neral, would be left in a century without 
“ an inhabitant, unlefs the people would betake themfelves to better courfes.” 
Chefliire, 
