died out of that number 5,630, which is above one quarter, so as
about half the said 5,630, being 2,815, seem to have died for want
of as good usage and accommodation as might have been had at La
Charite.

2. Moreover, in the year 1679 there entered into La Charite 3,118,
of which there died 452, which is above a seventh part, and in the
same year there entered into L'Hotel Dieu 28,635, of which there
died 8,397; and in both the said years 1678 and 1679 (being very
different in their degrees of mortality) there entered into L'Hotel
Dieu 28,635 and 2l,491--in all 50,126, the medium whereof is 25,063;
and there died out of the same in the said two years, 5,630 and
8,397--in all 14,027, the medium whereof is 7,013.

3. There entered in the said years into La Charite 2,647 and 3,118,
in all 5,765, the medium whereof is 2,882, whereof there died 338
and 452, in all 790, the medium whereof is 395.

4. Now, if there died out of L'Hotel Dieu 7,013 per annum, and that
the proportion of those that died out of L'Hotel Dieu is double to
those that died out of La Charite (as by the above numbers it
appears to be near thereabouts), then it follows that half the said
numbers of 7,013, being 3,506, did not die by natural necessity, but
by the evil administration of that hospital.

5. This conclusion seemed at the first sight very strange, and
rather to be some mistake or chance than a solid and real truth; but
considering the same matter as it appeared at London, we were more
reconciled to the belief of it, viz.:-