The deaths in Deritend are omitted, being involved with those of Aston.

Year. Births. Burials. Year. Births. Burials.

1555 37 27 1667 146 140
1560 -- 37 1668 113 102
1571 48 26 1681 251 139
1580 37 25 1690 127 150
1590 52 47 1700 172 171
1600 62 32 1719 334 270
1610 70 45 1720 423 355
1623 81 66 1730 449 415
1628 100 96 1740 520 573
1653 -- 47 1750 860 1020
1660 -- 75 1760 984 1143
1665 -- 109 1770 1329 899
1666 144 121 1780 1636 1340



GENERAL HOSPITAL.

Though charity is one of the most amiable qualities of humanity, yet,
like Cupid, she ought to be represented blind; or, like Justice,
hood-winked. None of the virtues have been so much misapplied; giving to
the _hungry_, is sometimes only another word for giving to the _idle_.
We know of but two ways in which this excellence can exert itself;
improving the _mind_, and nourishing the _body_. To help him who _will
not _help himself; or, indiscriminately to relieve those that want, is
totally to mistake the end; for want is often met with: but to supply