gjo Dr . bland’s Midwifery Reports 
or fome other epidemic, prevailing amongft children during 
two or three years of the time I was making this colle&ion, 
which would occafion the decreafe in the firft and fecond feries 
to be greater than ufual. If this fhould prove to be the cafe, it 
is probable, that in a courfe of years, by comparing this with 
a variety of fimilar tables, the true medium. may be found. 
A comparative table of the population of London, with a 
view to Ihew the proportion of natives to perfons born in the 
different counties of England and Wales, in Scotland, Ire- 
land, or foreign countries. 
Of 3236 married perfons 
824 or one- fourth were born in London. 
1870 or four-fevenths in the different counties of England and 
Wales. 
2 ©9 or 1 in 15 in Scotland. 
280 or 1 in 1 1 in Ireland. 
53 or 1 in 60 were foreigners. 
3 2 3 6 
Of the above number the males and females were in the 
following proportions. 
Men. Women. 
329 were born in London, and 495 or 166 more than men. 
952 - 
in different counties 
917 or 35 fewer than men. 
J 35 - 
in Scotland, 
74 or 61 fewer than men. 
162 - 
ill Ireland, — 
1 1 9 or 43 fewer than men. 
40 - 
were foreigners, 
13 or 27 fewer than men. 
1618 
1618 166 
Thus, 
