Note 2 — An objection to the practice of Inoculation considered.
Reading edition
Extract from the Bills of Mortality, and a continuation of the estimate from page 19.
Total of Deaths. Small Pox. Under 2 Years.
1768 23639 3028 8229 Total Deaths 178807
69 21847 1968 8016 Under 2 Years 63056
70 22434 1986 7994 ──────
71 21780 1660 7617 18821) 115751 (6
72 26053 3992 9112 2825
73 21656 1039 6850
74 20884 2479 7742
75 20514 2669 7496
178807 18821 63056 Totals.
By the above table it will be found, that with respect to the proportion of infants to the total number of deaths, there is still a surprising agreement with both the former estimates; the number of those under two years of age remains to be somewhat more than one-third of the whole.
But if we pursue the same method as before by subtracting the infants,
178807
63056
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the number will be 115751
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which now amounts to somewhat more than one in six; whereas before it was about one in eight.
But if the eight years are divided, it will appear that the deaths from the Small Pox in the first four years are 8642; the medium for each of those years will be 2160.
For the last four years the numbers are 10179, the medium for each 2544; an increase that is truly alarming, and well deserving the attention of the public.—For the present I shall forbear any remarks.