Part 7

A.D. Burials. Births. In Ternaries of Years 1666 1,480 952 4,821 2,979 1667 1,642 1,001 1668 1,699 1,026 1669 1,666 1,000 5,353 3,070 1670 1,713 1,067 1671 1,974 1,003 1672 1,436 967 5,073 2,842 1673 1,531 933 1674 2,106 942 1675 1,578 823 4,328 2,672 1676 1,391 952 1677 1,359 897 1678 1,401 1,045 4,624 3,202 1679 1,397 1,061 1680 1,826 1,096 24,199 14,765 24,199 14,765 The medium or 15th part whereof is 1,613 984 1,613 984

TABLE C.

THE A.D. 1671. A.D., 1670–71–72 at a PARISHES OF medium DUBLIN Families Hearths Births Burials St. 661 2,399 161 290 Katherine’s and St. James’s St. 490 2,348 207 262 Nicholas Without St. 656 2,301 127 221 Michan’s St. 483 2,123 108 178 Andrew’s with Donnybrook St. 416 1,989 70 100 Bridget’s St. John’s 244 1,337 70 138 St. 267 1,650 54 103 Warburgh’s St. 216 1,081 53 121 Audaen’s St. 140 793 44 59 Michael’s St. Kevin’s 106 433 64 133 St. 93 614 28 34 Nicholas Within St. 52 255 21 44 Patrick’s Liberties Christ 26 197 — 1 Church and Trinity College, per estimate 3,850 17,500 1,013 1,696 Houses 150 550 built between 1671 and 1681, per estimate 4,000 18,150

A WEEKLY BILL OF MORTALITY FOR THE CITY OF DUBLIN, Ending the XXX day of XXX 1681. {75}

PARISHES’ NAMES. Births Males Females Burials Under 16 Plague Small Pox Measles Spotted years old Fever St. Katharine’s and St. James’s St. Nicholas Without St. Michan’s St. Andrew’s with Donnybrook St. Bridget’s St. John’s St. Warburgh’s St. Audaen’s St. Michael’s St. Kevin’s St. Nicholas Within St. Patrick’s Liberties Christ Church and Trinity College Totals

A QUARTERLY BILL OF MORTALITY, Beginning XXX and ending XXX for the City of DUBLIN {76}

PARISHES’ NAMES. Births 1. Marriages 2. Buried under 16 Buried above 60 Measles, Consumption, Fever, Aged above 70 Infants under 2 All other years olds years old Spotted Fever, Dropsy, Gout, Pleurisy, years old years old Casualties Small Pox, Stone Quinsy, Sudden Plague Death St. Katharine’s and St. James’s St. Nicholas Without St. Michan’s St. Andrew’s with Donnybrook St. Bridget’s St. John’s St. Warburgh’s St. Audaen’s St. Michael’s St. Kevin’s St. Nicholas Within St. Patrick’s Liberties Christ Church and Trinity College Totals

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AN ACCOUNT OF THE PEOPLE OF DUBLIN FOR ONE YEAR, Ending the 24th of March, 1681. {77}

PARISHES’ NAMES. Number of Whereof Married Persons of Protestants Papists Of all other Births Burials Marriages person Persons religions Males Females Under 16 Above 60 of above 16 years old years old years old St. Katharine’s and St. James’s St. Nicholas Without St. Michan’s St. Andrew’s with Donnybrook St. Bridget’s St. John’s St. Warburgh’s St. Audaen’s St. Michael’s St. Kevin’s St. Nicholas Within St. Patrick’s Liberties Christ Church and Trinity College Totals

CASUALTIES AND DISEASES.

Aged above 70 years Epilepsy and planet Abortive and still-born Fever and ague Childbed women Pleurisy Convulsion Quinsy Teeth Executed, murdered, drowned Worms Plague and spotted fever Gout and sciatica Griping of the guts Stone Scouring, vomiting bleeding Palsy Small pox Consumption and French pox Measles Dropsy and tympany Neither of all the other sorts Rickets and livergrown Headache and megrim

A POSTSCRIPT TO THE STATIONER.

WHEREAS you complain that these observations make no sufficient bulk, I could answer you that I wish the bulk of all books were less; but do nevertheless comply with you in adding what follows, viz.:

1. That the parishes of Dublin are very unequal; some having in them above 600 families, and others under thirty.

2. That thirteen parishes are too few for 4,000 families; the middling parishes of London containing 120 families; according to which rate there should be about thirty-three parishes in Dublin.

3. It is said that there are 84,000 houses or families in London, which is twenty-one times more than are in Dublin, and yet the births and burials of London are but twelve times those of Dublin, which shows that the inhabitants of Dublin are more crowded and straitened in their housing than those of London; and consequently that to increase the buildings of Dublin will make that city more conformable to London.

4. I shall also add some reasons for altering the present forms of the Dublin bills of mortality, according to what hath been here recommended—viz.:

1. We give the distinctions of males and females in the births only; for that the burials must, at one time or another, be in the same proportion with the births.

2. We do in the weekly and quarterly bills propose that notice be taken in the burials of what numbers die above sixty and seventy, and what under sixteen, six, and two years old, foreseeing good uses to be made of that distinction.

3. We do in the yearly bill reduce the casualties to about twenty-four, being such as may be discerned by common sense, and without art, conceiving that more will but perplex and imbroil the account. And in the quarterly bills we reduce the diseases to three heads—viz., contagious, acute, and chronical, applying this distinction to parishes, in order to know how the different situation, soil, and way of living in each parish doth dispose men to each of the said three species; and in the weekly bills we take notice not only of the plague, but of the other contagious diseases in each parish, that strangers and fearful persons may thereby know how to dispose of themselves.

4. We mention the number of the people, as the fundamental term in all our proportions; and without which all the rest will be almost fruitless.

5. We mention the number of marriages made in every quarter, and in every year, as also the proportion which married persons bear to the whole, expecting in such observations to read the improvement of the nation.

6. As for religions, we reduce them to three—viz.: (1) those who have the Pope of Rome for their head; (2) who are governed by the laws of their country; (3) those who rely respectively upon their own private judgments. Now, whether these distinctions should be taken notice of or not, we do but faintly recommend, seeing many reasons pro and con for the same; and, therefore, although we have mentioned it as a matter fit to be considered, yet we humbly leave it to authority.

TWO ESSAYS IN POLITICAL ARITHMETIC,

Concerning the People, Housing, Hospitals, &c., of London and Paris.

TO THE KING’S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

I DO presume, in a very small paper, to show your Majesty that your City of London seems more considerable than the two best cities of the French monarchy, and for aught I can find, greater than any other of the universe, which because I can say without flattery, and by such demonstration as your Majesty can examine, I humbly pray your Majesty to accept from