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VIII. A Supplement to a Paper, entitled , Obfervations on 
the Population of Manchefterw. By Thomas Peruval, 
M. D. F. R- and A. S. 
TO THE REV. DR. HORSLEY. 
REV. SIR, 
K. Dec. i 4 , \ PAINFUL nervous complaint in my 
5 - JfY eyeS) wit h which I have been troubled a 
few days, lays me under the neceffity of writing to you 
by an amanuenfis. I beg leave to return you iny e 
thanks for your kind attention to my Memoir. If you 
think the following additions of importance, you are at 
liberty to annex them to it tit. ■ 
I have the honour to he, &c. 
FROM the table of the number of males and females 
baptized in different places it appears to, that the propor- 
tion of males to females baptized is nearly as 1 3 to 1 2, 
agreeable to the calculation of Mr. derham ; but the luc- 
eeeding ones drew, the number ot females alive con 1- 
derably exceed the number of males, in a vanety o 
places; and that the widows are almoft double the num- 
ber of widowers. 
'a) See Philofoph. Tranfaaions, vol. LXV. art. xxm. 
(b) Thefe papers came too late to my hands to be mlertcd m the lull po 
nation. s. horsley. 
(c) See Philofoph. Tranf. vol. LXV. p 333. 
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