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Bolton, in the fame county ; and yet in fome of thefe 
places it appears, that not a 6oth part of the inhabitants 
die annually. 
At Stockholm, in 1763, the inhabitants under the age 
of 5, were only a 1 2th; above 70, only a 46th part of 
the whole number. But in all Sweden, the number un- 
der 5 was a 7th; and above 70, near the 3 2d part of all 
the inhabitants : and yet 3 5 die in the town to 1 9 in the 
whole kingdom. This may be eahly deduced from Mr. 
wargentin’s tables in the Colle^ion Academique before 
quoted. 
To the accounts which give the proportion of inha- 
bitants to annual deaths fo high as 30 or 60 to i, it has 
been farther objed;ed, that if true, it muft follow, that 
in fuch htuations half the inhabitants mull live to 5 o or 
60 years of age. But were this a right inference, there 
would be nothing in it incredible. For though in mod: 
cities one-half die in the firlf two or three years after 
birth ; yet, in many country lituations, the greater part 
live to marry : and in the parifli of Ackworth, particu- 
larly, it appears with undeniable evidence from the re- 
gifter, that one-half of all born there live to the age of 46. 
It appears alfo, with equal evidence, from M. xMuret’s 
tables in the Bern Memoirs for 1766, that in 43 pa- 
rifhes in the diftridf of Vaud, one-half of all born there 
males and 91 females above 50, 398 married perfons, 26 widowers, and 43 widows. 
The baptifms during fix years, wanting fix weeks, have amounted to 293, and 
the deaths to 169. Oaeperfon, therefore, in 41 died annually. Thefe fiirveys 
were made in t^bc year 1773,. 
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