Population  and  Difeafes  of  Chefter.  1 3 5 
care  and  fidelity ; and  that  the  errors  are,  for  obvkras 
reafons,  rather  on  the  fide  of  defect  than  excefs,  fo  as  to 
make  the  proportional  mortality  rather  appear  greater, 
not  lefs,  than  the  truth.  Two  fa<5ts  may  be  mentioned  in 
proof  of  this  pofition.  In  1772  the  inhabitants  of  St.  Mi- 
chael’s parifh  were  reckoned  to  be  6 1 8,  and  there  cannot 
be  the  fmalleft  fufpicion  that  there  are  fewer  than  this 
number;  and  yet  by  the  furvey,  Table  v.  they  are  only 
575.  Again,  the  deaths,  by  fever,  appear  to  be  35  from 
the  parifh-regifters,  and  only  28  from  the  furvey.  I 
know  no  error  on  the  fide  of  excefs,  except  in  Trinity 
parifh,  where  a new  ftreet  has  been  inhabited  only  fix 
years.  This  eircumftance  will  clearly  occafion  this  dif- 
tridl  to  appear  in  Table  vii.  more  healthy  than  the  truth. 
In  eftimating  the  health  of  the  diftricft  which  belongs 
to  the  Cathedral,  becaufe  it  appeared  fo  very  extraordi- 
nary, particular  care  was  taken  to  afcertain  the  exa& 
truth.  As  fome  of  thefe  houfes  have  not  been  built  the 
whole  period  included  in  this  calculation,  more  than  a 
proportionable  allowance  of  death  is  made  for  this  defi- 
ciency. 
In  order  to  exhibit  a juft  and  moft  ftriking  view  of  the 
health  of  Chefter,  efpecially  the  center,  beyond  other 
places  both  of  town  and  country,  the  reader  is  particu- 
larly requefted  to  compare  the  feventh  with  the  eighth. 
table. 
