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17735 1^774)5 973^?^’; that is, a 28th pait of the 
number of inhabitants. From an equally careful furvey 
it appears, that the number of inhabitants in that part of 
the parifh of Manchefter which lies in the country, was 
13786. The number of deaths in 1772 was 246 ; that 
is, a 56th part of the number of inhabitants. The chief 
obje6tion to this evidence is, that the number of deaths 
in that part of the parifli which lies in the country is 
given only for one year; whereas the average of feveral 
years ought to be given. But firlt, the number of deaths 
in 1 77 2, in the town, was nearly the fame with the me- 
dium for feven years ; and from hence there arifes a pro- 
bability, that in the adjacent country, the number of 
deaths, in the fame year, could not have been much 
lower than the medium. Secondly, fuppoling it lower, 
there is the higheft probability, that it was not more than 
a 4th or 5 th lower. Suppofe then the true annual me- 
dium to be 300, inftead of 246, and it will follow, that 
whereas a 28th part of the inhabitants die in the town 
annually, a 46th part die in the country; and this is a 
difference very confiderable. But farther, I would 
(a) The numbers of burials in the town, including the addition of 50 every 
year for diffenters, was in 1772, 954 
i773> 973 
1774, 1008 
Within the parifli, but out of the town, there are 13 epifcopal and diffenting 
chapels; and the number of burials in all thefe chapels, in 177.2, was 246. The 
chriftcnings were 401. The number of burials brought from the country into 
the town is not confiderable ; and it is, I am informed, pretty exadly balanced 
by the burials carried out of the town into the country, 
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obferve 
