Observations medical and political, on the small-pox, and the advantages and disadvantages of general inoculation, especially in cities : and on the mortality of mankind at every age in city and country; with a comparative view and regular tables of all the fatal diseases and casualties in London, during the last one hundred and five years, ... To which is added a postscript, containing the sketch of an easy plan for new modelling and essentially improving the London bills of births and mortality ... / by W. Black.

William Black

Date:: 1781

Credit: Observations medical and political, on the small-pox, and the advantages and disadvantages of general inoculation, especially in cities : and on the mortality of mankind at every age in city and country; with a comparative view and regular tables of all the fatal diseases and casualties in London, during the last one hundred and five years, ... To which is added a postscript, containing the sketch of an easy plan for new modelling and essentially improving the London bills of births and mortality ... / by W. Black. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$' The murdered from 1671 to 1701, were 432 J it is with pleafure that in the two laft tables of the prefent century, we behold this dreadful crime on the decreafe. Are ¥/e indebted for this, in fome deeree to the ftreets and fuburbs being better lighted, watched, widened, and paved 3 or are the low- er clafs alfo now lefs barbarous: in thefe day -; our robberies are feldom accompanied with cruelty. That modern and magnificent efta* bli{lim.ent, the Foundling Hofpital, for the reception of young, and efpecially illegiti- mate infants, has perhaps refcued many of thefe new-born ftrangers from violent deaths.^ > This noble inftitution, had its firft beginning in 1741. The numbers drovvned in Loiidon from 1671 to 1701, were 2182; and when we behold the multitude of failors, watermen and paffengers, on the river Thames, many difafters of this fort, muft naturally be ex- pefted. Drowned perfons formerly, in order to revive life, were often fiifpended by the legs, or laid in a prone pofture, with the face and head downwards, and rolled over a caifc or cylinder, from an erroneous idea, that the ftomach and lungs were filled with water, Thefa «$

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