of tb<? W eftminfter General Dlfpenfary. ^7 
4. The number of children they had been able to prefer ve. 
5. The place or country where they and their hy {bands were 
born. 
And after the delivery of the patient I have conftantly noted, 
r. The accidents that attended, or were the confequezxces 
of parturition. 
2. The fexes of the children delivered. 
3. The number of twins or triplets.. 
4. The number of the children that were deficient or tnon- 
ftrous. 
5. The number of the children that were dead-born : and. 
as the women were enjoined to return their letters as foon as 
they were able to go abroad, I farther intended to have added 
the proportion of the children who died under four or five 
weeks ; but many of the women negle&ing this duty, pre- 
vented my information under this head from being fo compleat 
as I could have wifhed. Of thofe, however, who came, or 
of whom certain account could be obtained, the number is fet 
down. 
From the above mentioned regifter the following tables and 
accounts have been compofed ; and as the greateft care and 
exa&nefs were ufed in recording the feveral circumftances, the 
fame pundtuality has been obferved in collecting and digefting 
them. And that they might be kept as free from error as 
poffible, tables for each year were firft compofed and com- 
pared together ; but finding 'no material variation, I did not 
think it neceflary to produce them in that form. My firft in- 
tention was to have given the tables limply, and without any 
explanatory obfervations ; but finding I could not introduce all 
the circumftances I had noted in my* regifter, as was particu- 
larly thecafe with regard to the firft. table, and imagining that 
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