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Numbers

Assumptions

7. The ratio of the numbers of the different ages taken out of the community by death to the numbers left remaining in it alive, is not the same as between age and age: some of the ages losing from this cause, within a given portion of time more of their numbers than others, in the proportions observed is according to the rate of mortality in France, as reported by D r Hutton in his Mathematical Dictionary.

8 The number assumed for the total number of the numbers of the given community of all ages is 500,000 supposed for the purpose of calculation to be 500 000.

9. The proportional numbers as between age and age are those which are exhibited in the ensuing Table now given in Column [\ZS\] the same being respectively the observed numbers observed to be in existence /found existing/ in a total of 851 Paupers, composing the stock of 31 Parishes, according to a Census reported by Sir Frederic Eden in his Book intitled The State of the Poor 3 Vols 4 to London 1797.