about 2,524,320 French livres.

7. It hath appeared that there came into L'Hotel Dieu at a medium
25,063 per annum, or 2,089 per mensem, and that the whole stock of
what remained in the precedent months is at a medium about 2,108 (as
may appear by the third line of the Table No. 5, which shall be
shortly published), viz., the medium of months is 2,410 for the
sickly year 1679, whereunto 1,806 being added as the medium of
months for the year 1678, makes 4,216, the medium whereof is the
2,108 above mentioned; which number being added to the 2,089 which
entered each month, makes 4,197 for the number of sick which are
supposed to be always in L'Hotel Dieu one time with another.

8. Now, if 60 French livres per annum for each of the said 4,197
sick persons were added to the present ordinary expense of that
hospital (amounting to an addition of 251,820 livres), it seems that
so many lives might be saved as are worth above ten times that sum,
and this by doing a manifest deed of charity to mankind.

Memorandum.--That A.D. 1685, the burials of London were 23,222, and
those of Amsterdam 6,245; from whence, and the difference of air, it
is probable that the people of London are quadruple to those of
Amsterdam.




OBSERVATIONS UPON THE CITIES OF LONDON AND ROME