1808] 
not very rapid, but rather stationary, and 
nearly the same as it was fifty years ago, 
namely, an average increase of about 
23,000 individuals annually. In Finland, 
however, the en has been more 
than doubled within sixty-five years. The 
number of its inhabitants in 1741 was 
408,839, and in 1806, 898,463, which still 
gives only thirty mdividuals for the En- 
glish square mile. 
Inoculating for the cow-pock has met 
with very great success in Sweden. To 
encourage it still more, the king, by a re- 
script, dated the 6th of December, 1806, 
has granted permission to the Board of 
Health, or Collegium Medicum at Stock- 
holm, to expend 900 dollars, or 150/. 
sterling, ansually, in rewards to those 
physicians who have most contributed to 
the success of the vaccine inoculation. 
Smail as these rewards must be, they are 
in strict proportion with the opulence of 
the country, for the wealth of Sweden 
has been pretty nearly ascertained in the 
year 1800, when all kinds of property in 
landed estates, houses, buildings, forges, 
mines, capitals, &c. were valued, and has 
been found to amount to 176,060 TA 
dollars, bank currency, or 
about : - : £40,825,687 
And adding to this sum house- 
hold furniture at 
And the coi im circulation at 
The whole wealth of Sweden 
may be estimated at. 56,000,000 
Taking the interest of the 
productive capital of forty 
millions at ten per cent. 
gives 4,000,000 
And the profits of trade at 1,700,000 
We findthesum of . £5,700,000 
Which divided. among three millions 
of individuals, averages an annual in- 
come of 1]. 18s. for each. But admit- 
ting that the valuation of property had 
been much too low, stil it remains indu- 
bitable that the average annual income 
of a Swede i3 below 31. The same rea- 
soning applied to the capital of each in- 
dividual, makes it 18]. 7s. according to 
the valuation; and allowing that valu- 
ation to have been 50 per cent. too low, 
does not raise it to SOl. 
15,000,000 
174,313 
These calculations, though not strictly 
true, tend at least to prove that Sweden 
is still what it has always: been reputed 
to be, a very poor country, and this con- 
clusion is fully supported by the man- 
ner of existence of the Swedish Ja- 
bourer, 
tt was certainly over-magnanimous in 
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Regulations for extirpating the Small-Pox. 526 
the King of Sweden to provoke the aga 
gression of the French in Swedish Pome- 
rania: but if he should now be driven 
into a hostile confederacy against Eng- 
land, his country will be a still greater 
sufferer. Commerce will be nearly an- 
nihilated, and the principal sources of 
Swedish industry, fisheries and mines, 
will receive a check which must spread 
additional misery over a country, whose 
agriculture has to contend with a severe 
climate, aad an unproductive soil. The 
southern countries alone, and Finland, 
raise in good years as much corn as they 
want for their consumption. The inha- 
bitants of the northern provinces must 
be supplied from abroad. When this 
supply fails, they are forced to mix with 
their flower straw, roots, or the bark of 
the beech and the pine, in order to make 
what they call stampebread. Sometimes 
even they make it of nothing but bark. 
Could it then for a moment be wondered 
at, if the inhabitants of Sweden had 
expressed their disapprobation of an ad- 
ministration which has wantonly increas- 
ed their misery, by an injudicious inter- 
ference in the political broils of Europe? 
Bat I shall delay the statement of the 
probable effects of a war with England 
on the industry and commerce of Swe- 
den, till her anwilhing hostility be ne 
longer doubtful. In the mean time, 1 
beg leave to add, that the fanciful expla- 
nation of the proverb to lead apes in hell, 
in the 469th page of your last interesting 
publication, is built upon an erroneous 
supposition. The English word lead is 
not collateral with the German leiden, to 
suffer, but with the German J/ezten, to 
lead. 
Andif I am not trespassing on the 
space allotted to statistical facts, in your 
valuabie Magazine, I shall beg leave to 
mention a letter lately published on the 
expediency of regulating the practice of 
variolous inoculation, wiich strongly re- 
commends the interference of Parlia- 
ment on the subject, that the government 
of Piombino and Lucca has issued an’ 
order, on the 25th of December, 1806, 
by virtue of which every inhabitant is’ 
obliged, under the penalty of 100 livres, 
to declare immediately whenever there 
is a person attacked with the small-pox in 
his family. 
the existence of any concealed patient is 
to have fifty livres. Any house infected 
with the natural small pox isto be block- 
ed up, surrounded with guards, and ail 
communication with those wrhin 18 te be. 
deavouring 
an) 
interrupted. Any person en 
The informer who reveals 
