BaptifmSy &c. at Blandford Forum. 617 
year preceding that of the furvey, it will be feen that 
about I in 38 or 39 dies yearly; and, as it can fcarcely 
be doubted, that the errors of a furvey muft be on the 
fide of omiffion, it may not be too much to allow 1 in 
39 onl 7- 
From this refult, therefore, it is manifeft, that al- 
though the falubrity of this place does not equal what 
we read of fome particular villages in the North of Eng- 
land, or of the diftrift of Vaud, yet it turns out very 
much in favour of the general opinion, and very far 
beyond that of London and larger towns, where the 
number is found to be from 1 in 20 to 1 in 26 or 28. 
I am, .See. 
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