232 
and intereftine nottces”’ relative to Portu- 
al. 
The number of inftances here offered 
will ferve to correct in fome meafure the 
calculation of your correfpondent J. j.G. 
_ inthe Magazine of Nov. 1, 1799, and to 
confirm the truth of the. obfervation with 
which he concludes his communication ; 
viz. that the great proportion of (long 
lived) inhabitants of Great Britain and 
Ireland may arife, in fome meafure, from 
inftances of great age not being fo gene- 
rally noticed and recorded in other places. 
You will pardon my errors of idiom, - 
(to which all perfons writing in a foreign 
Janguage are liable) and allow me, after 
the manner of my countrymen, to wifh that 
the Monthly Magazine may live a thou- 
fand years. Tam, Sir, 
Your obedient Servant, 
March 3, 1800. LusITANUS. 
| N.B. The year prefixed to the names de- 
notes cither the time of death of the perfons, 
or the period at which they were {till living. 
lnftances of Longevity in Portugal. 
Year, Age. 
%790 Manoel Luiz de Margalhao, a 









foldier. (His exa&i age was 
101 years, 11 months, and 6 
days eee 2) 
1790 Maria dos “Anjos, a Francifcan 
nun 10 
1789 Margarida jofefa da Silveira 102 
1789 Father Antonio de Nofla Sen- 
horadaConceigam Bahia (died 
ia Brazil) _—_ — 102 
1790 Manoel Antonio Pereira de 
Mello. The abbot of the 
parifh church of St. Nicholas 
in the City of Oporto — 102 
1789 Luiza da Cruz 103 
4788 The widow of Captain Luiz 
2 Barreto — — 105 
1788 Antonio Mendes de Vafcon- 
cellos — — — 105 
1790 Joam Affonfo, a foldier — 105 
1790 Catherina Sollera -—- — 105 
1791 —aee— (fill living) 105 
3790 Joanna Simoens (fill living) 106 
3791 Thomé de Brito, a negro 107 
1789 Manoel Alvares — — art 
1742 A labourer of Alworninha 112 
1743 Donna Marianna de Gufman, 
a noble lady. (Died in a con- 
vent, where fhe had lived from 
the age of 12 years) — 12 
1789 Faiher Jolé de Santo Antonio £12 
1789 Joam Salgado , 112 
2791 (ftillliving) 115 
3791 A woman known by the name 
of ‘* the Mother of Joam Af- 
fon{o meme 
Inflances of Longevity in Portugal. 
[April r, 
1791 Mariannade Souza (fill living) x15 

1789 Maria Barreta —- — 43116 
1789 Maria Francifca, widowofMa- ' 
noel Ferreira — — «7 
1790 Francifco Nunes 119 
1790 Joanna Francifca da Piedade 
(fill living) ae — 120 
1742 Joam Homem da Cunha Deca 
[de Sa] _ — 129 
P.S. To the above may be added an in- 
ftance of longévity, tranflated from the Lif- 
bon Gazette of Noy. 17, 1798. ‘** Died 
lately at Pederne, at the age of 106 years, 
Francifco Domingues de Eftivados. He had all 
his teeth remaining, and had black hair. He 
ufed to read and: write without fpe€tacles ; and 
his vigour was fuch, that, when necefiary, he 
could walk four leagues (nearly fixteen Eng-. 
lifh miles) a day, and without a walking- 
ftick.” 
eT 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
\, MONG the many abufes which re- 
\\ quire correction in large cities, and 
efpecially in this metropolis, there are none 
which call more loudly for redrefs than 
the fituation, conftruction, and other cir- 
cumftances which relate to workhoufes, 
and ‘the infirmaries for the parochial poor, 
as alfo the receptacles for, and early edu- 
cation of, thofe poor children, who, from 
the indigence of their parents, are under 
the neceffity of being admitted into poor- 
houfes. I propofe to call your attention 
to each of thefe fubjeéts ; but, as the moft 
important, and demanding immediate re- 
drefs, I mean to lay before the public, 
through the medium of your excellent Ma- 
gazine, fome of the abufes of parochial 
infrmaries. Nothing can be more felf- 
evident, than that the habitations of the 
healthy and the fick ought to be kept 
perfeftly diftinét, under feparate roofs, 
and with no kind of communication . 
among the fervants or attendants, and 
yet nothing is more common than to find 
the infirmary and the work-houfe in the 
fame building, by means of which, if 
there fhould be any infectious dileafe, it 
cannot fail to be communicated from the 
fick to the healthy. By this fingle cir- 
cumftance of mifmanagement, not only | 
there will be great mortality among the - 
unfortunate inhabitants of poor-houfes, 
but infeGtious difeafes are likely .to be 
propagated through the town from thefe 
fources. I am credibly informed, that 
from thefe caufes, neaily thirty perfons 
were buried from one parochial receptacle 
of healthy and fick, in the courfe of a fin- 
gle week. And I have reafon to ae 2 
that 
