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The inhabited houses contain as near as possible, five and a half upon the average to each house.

If we divide the number of inhabitants by the annual average number of burials, we shall discover that it will require about thirty-one years and ten months to bury a number equal to that of the whole town, consequently nearly one in thirty-two of the inhabitants die annually. We shall also find that by ascertaining the number of people and burials, the comparative healthfulness of places may be determined; making proper allowance for those who die in their infancy, and for the extraordinary in- crease or decrease of the people by acquisition or emi- gration. This comparison has not been made in many places in England, because the mistaken apprehension of new taxes, and other reasons, make the people jealous of being enumerated.—It his however with pleasure we de- clare, that we found very few such groundless fears to prevail here; but on the contrary, the generality of the people gave their numbers with great good nature and chearfulness.

It appears that in a very healthful parish, called Holy Cross, adjoiing to Shrewsbury, one in thirty-three die annually, though in Shrewsbury and Northampton one in twenty-seven, and in London one in twenty-one;_ but with respect to London, the computation has been made only from the number of houses. In many places of Europe, regular accounts are annually taken, from which we find at Vienna one in twenty die every year; at Berlin one in twenty-six, but this number would be smaller only for an extra encrease of people of late years; at a country parish in Bradenburgh one in forty-five; and the same in those healthful villages of the Pais de Vaud near Geneva; but this high number may proceed from the emigration of the natives, of which Dr. Tissot, in the Introduction to his Advice to the Peofle, very much complains. We must not conclude that because this number is twice that of London,