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XXVIII. An Account of Baptifms, Marriages , and Buria!s y 
during Forty Years., in the Pari/h of Blandfcrd Forum,. 
Dorfet. Communicated by Richard Pnlteney, M. D. 
F. R. S . 
T O D R. WATSON, F. K. 
S I R, 
Read Mar. 19, A s the fubjects of the following tables 
1778. /V 
have been much difcuffed of late, I 
take the liberty of putting thefe into your hands, encou- 
raged thereto by your affurances, when I had the plea- 
fure of feeing you laft in town, that they might not im- 
properly be J^id before the Royal Society. If upon in- 
ipedtion you fhould continue to think fo, you will do me 
the honour of prefenting them. • 
Exdufive of general curiolity, I was alfo induced to 
examine the regifter of this place, in order to determine 
how far the general opinion, which gives the credit of 
extraordinary falubrity to this country, was founded on 
fadt, as far as that could be proved by this mode of exa- 
mination. I found that the regifter had been kept with. 
fufficient: 
