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therefore the chance of life to adults is two to one against London; it is only so to the new born infant; hence the necessity in these calculations of always taking into con- sideration the number of infants that are annually buried.— At Vienna: half the number of inhabitants die before they are two years of age; at Berlin two and three quarters, at London three, at Northampton six, at Holy Cross twenty- Seven, and in the Pais de Vaud forty-one.

From a comparison of the foregoing premises, it is with peculiar satisfaGtion that we conclude Nottingham to be a very healthy situation, for we nearly come up to the standard of Holy Cross, and should certainly exceed it, if it was not for the numbers that die here in their infancy; where poor people are forced to neglect their offspring to procure a subsistence, it is no wonder if half of those who are born die young. Dr. Deering in his Antiquities of Nottingham, page seventy-eight, gives us 2331 for the burials in seven years; of which 1072 were infants, Near half therefore die in their infancy, which cannot be the case at Holy Cross, where half that are born live to the age of twenty-seven.—The doétor in the year 1739, enumerated the inhabitants of this place, and making a proportionate allowance for some omissions and defici- encies in his account, it appears there were at that time about 10720 souls in this town; taking also his annual average of burials. for seven years, by which if we divide the number of inhabitants, it will appear that nearly thirty-two years was then the requisite time to bury the whole number of the people. This similarity at forty years distance with the present Statement, most certainly re- moves the suspicion of inaccuracy in both accounts. We are aware that the judicious may possibly observe that the very great additional number of people since Dr. Deering’s account, will of course operate here as it did at Berlin, and make this place also appear more healthful than it

really is, and such would certainly be the case, if during