 | 1829 - 488 páginas
...chances of existence are exactly doubled in London, — a progress and final result, adds the anther, without a parallel in the history of any other age or country. The high rate of mortality in London about the year 1750, exceeding considerably that of former years,... | |
 | Francis Bisset Hawkins - 1829 - 316 páginas
...in 40. So that, in the space of 70 years, the chances of existence are exactly doubled in London ; which is a progress and final result without a parallel in the history of any other age or country. The annual mortality in the year 1700 was about 1 in 25. It seems to have increased from that time... | |
 | John Read (maker to the army.) - 1829 - 594 páginas
...forty. So that, in the space of seventy years, the chances of existence are exactly doubled in London; which is a progress and final result without a parallel in the history of any other age or country." (P. 18.) In the peculiar circumstances of Ireland, it would be very interesting to know the average... | |
 | 1829 - 488 páginas
...chances of existence are exactly doubled in London, — a progress and final result, adds the author, without a parallel in the history of any other age or country. The high rate of mortality in London about the year l750, exceeding considerably that of former years,... | |
 | 1830 - 318 páginas
...chances of existence are exactly doubled in London,— a progress and final result, adds the author, without a parallel in the history of any other age or country. The high rate of mortality in London about the year 1750, exceeding considerably that of former years,... | |
 | 1850 - 642 páginas
...have been exactly doubled in London, a progress and final result which may fairly be considered as without a parallel in the history of any other age or country. In Paris, about the middle of the last century, the mortality was 1 in 25 ; at present it is about... | |
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London about the year 1750, exceeding considerably that of former years, has been attributed to the great abuse of spirituous liquors, which were then sold without the very necessary check of high duties. One of the results of these statistical investigations... 