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buried their children before the end of two months. Of this 
number 53, or 5 in 8, were boys, and 32 girls. 
This lingular circumftance of there being a greater number 
of males than females among the ftill-born children, and of a 
greater number of male children dying in infancy than of 
females, has been remarked by Dr. price and other writers on 
calculations ; and Dr. haygarth * has Ihewn that at Chefter 
more hulbands die in a given period than wives. This natu- 
rally fuggefts an enquiry, whether the lives of males are at all 
ages more precarious than thofe of females. 
To be enabled to affift in anfwering this queftion, I have 
added the following article to my regifter, viz . of the children 
that fhall be living at the time the women apply for their letters, 
how many will be boys, and how many girls ? 
* Obfervations on the bills of mortality in Chefter for the year 1 772. 
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