^ 6 Dr. White’s Obfervations on the 
caufes to which fuch effefb may be attributed ; but here a wide 
field offers itfelf to our examination. It will, however, be ne- 
ceffary juft to point out fuch as affeft this city in particular, in 
a fubfequent part of this paper. 
Mr. drake, f. r. s. in his Antiquities of York, has given 
us the number of' births and burials for 7 years, from Auguft 
5, 172S to Auguft 5, 1735, inclufve. This gave a favourable 
opportunity of comparing our prefent ftate after an elapfe of 
45 years. In order to this, the different parifh regifters were 
carefully examined from January 1, 1770, to December 31, 
1776, inclufive : I added the number of males and females for 
the latter term, which Mr. drake omitted. 
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