Essays on Mankind and Political Arithmetic by Sir William Petty
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Headache and megrim sorts 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 |
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