A comparative history of the increase and decrease of mankind in England, and several countries abroad ... To which is added, a syllabus of the general states of health, air, seasons, and food for the last three hundred years; and also a meteorological discourse / By Thomas Short, M.D.

  • Short, Thomas, 1690?-1772.
Date:
1767
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Credit: A comparative history of the increase and decrease of mankind in England, and several countries abroad ... To which is added, a syllabus of the general states of health, air, seasons, and food for the last three hundred years; and also a meteorological discourse / By Thomas Short, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the Bottom) 1603, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 25, 30, 36, 37, 40, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 65. In Column id of this Table are the Totals that died monthly of common Difeafes; Column 2d, the Numbers that died in thofe Months of the Plague; Column 3d, the Totals that died of both; Column 4th, the monthly Births in thofe Years. Died of common Difeafes. Of the Plague. Totals of both. Born. December January February March April May 16280 ■446 *3' *4 16348 15775 I 6056 3283 1106 1456 *93 J525 1925 !9563 2552 1457° 17241 17300 17981 4277 4784 6614 6388 ! 6614 6785 6845 6983) 93i5 9522 9160 1085c 10370 10670 Total | 79019I 101881 89207 Tune July Auguft Septemb. October Novemb. 16753 23176 38778 34919 9722 16228 3525 21438 43425 49555 29688 10242 20278 44614 82203 84474 39410 26470 1139576 }i 57873(297449! 9410 Totals 139576 79OI9 14987 157873 10188 115°3 297449 89207 26490 8104 7966 7583 | 7822 ! qq6? Totals 1233582)179564 (413146 16002Q In the 20 fpecified Years in this Table, we find a prodigious Lofs, which neceffa-7 rily demands a fpeedy Supply of Inhabi¬ tants, or the City mufl quickly be depo¬ pulated, viz. a yearly Waite of about 10,400 People, requiring the like Recruit. But in the Time of the Plague the frefh Recruits, many of them corning out of a fine, pure, healthy Air, would fooner be infedted with the Contagion than the Na¬ tives accuftomed to that Air. Tho’ the Bills after 69 did leave out the Article of the Plague, yet, from 1681 to 1711, (30 Years) were only regiftered 250,008 Bap- tifms, and 645,937 Burials; the former to the latter as 25 to 64--. The Births to the Burials in the above 20 Years, when there were few or no feparate Burying Places, are near three to feven on the whole; but in the Plague of 93, as one to fix; in i6or, as one to eight; in 36, as one to five; in 65, as one to ten. Tho’ the prefent London Bills begin only with the Plague of 1592, yet the City had often been vifited with the Plague before, and was feldom long free from it, from 1603 to 78; but the Mortality itfelf was neither equal in Years nor Months; for in 1592 and 93 died of it 21,955; in 1603, 30,561; in 25, 45,433; in 30, 1317; in 36, 10,400; in 65, 68,596. The Months and Seafons differed as widely. The greateft Mor¬ tality was in Auguj: and September, wherein died 166,677; in July and October, 84,019; in all the other eight Months 148,925. It probably was this greater Mortality in Harveft by common Difeafes, as well as by the Plague, during July, Augujl, and September, which induced Major Grant to think Autumn the fataleft Seafon in London, and October, Janu- unary, February, and April the healthieft; wherein he contradicts his former Affertion. The great Superiority of Funerals to Chriftenings was much