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
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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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    » [ 268 ] 4 POSTSCRIPT. The Sketch of a Flan propofed for neuo-mo^ delling and efcnttally improving the hoNDON Bills of Births and Mortality, and equally ivell adapted to every other great City. IF any material inftru6tion is in future expefted from the London bills of births and mortaUty, they mull: undergo a total reformation: fliould they be continued in the fame imperfe£l and neghgent manner, pohticians, philofophers, phyficians, and the community at large, will, at the expiration of 100 years hence, glean a very infignifi- cant addition of edification or benefit by their continuance, beyond what we are at prefent in pofTeffion of: they are Gothic ruins, which it is wafling time to prop and plafter. The Model I fhall offer is extreme- ly fimple, can be executed with great faci- lity, and fupported without any additional tax or expence, \ After
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