12. As for Grand Cairo it is reported, that 73,000 died in ten
weeks, or 1,000 per diem, where note, that at Grand Cairo the plague
comes and goes away suddenly, and that the plague takes away two or
three-fifths parts of the people as aforesaid; so as 73,000 was
probably the number of those that died of the plague in one whole
year at Grand Cairo, whereas at London, A.D. 1665, 97,000 were
brought to account to have died in that year. Wherefore it is
certain, that that city wherein 97,000 was but one-fifth of the
people, the number was greater than where 73,000 was two-fifths or
the half.

We therefore conclude, that London hath more people, housing,
shipping, and wealth, than Paris and Rouen put together; and for
aught yet appears, is more considerable than any other city in the
universe, which was propounded to be proved.



AN ESSAY IN POLITICAL ARITHMETIC



Tending to prove that in the hospital called L'Hotel Dieu at Paris,
there die above 3,000 per annum by reason of ill accommodation.

1. It appears that A.D. 1678 there entered into the Hospital of La
Charite 2,647 souls, of which there died there within the said year
338, which is above an eighth part of the said 2,647; and that in
the same year there entered into L'Hotel Dieu 21,491, and that there