Bills of Mortality for the Year 17-
Age of the deeeafe'd.
Sexes.
A bove a
y ear old.
Fewer
Empyema
•Quinzy
Stone
•Cirlocele, &c.
Eryfypelas, Gangrene,
&c.
'Suffocation, Apoplexy
Intermitting Fevers
Spotted Fever
Putrid Fever
Hemorhage
Confumption
Cholick, &c.
Jaundice, &c.
Gout
Convulfions
Epilepfy
Scurvy
Fiftuks, Ulcers
Dropfy
Cancer
Leprofy, Itch
Venereal Complaints
Madnefs
Old Age
Child-bed
Flux, or Lofs of Blood
Rath
Hooping-cough, afthma
Small Pox
Mealies
Scarlet Fever
Indigellion
Worms
Rickets
Unknown or concealed
. Diforders
Cafualties, &c.
Total of
Deaths and
thdir Diforders.
Sum o f dea th s, fpecifying
age and fex
The celebrated aftronomer, Mr. Wargentin, a member o f ci^lI>-
this ufeful fociety, has publiihed in the Tranfadtions o f the'— J—+
Royal Swediili Academy o f Sciences, a very clear and accurate
account o f the manner in which the board carries on
its correfpondence, and collects the neceffary information ;
and has drawn from the feveral regifters an average computation
o f the annual deaths.
From feveral judicious calculations, formed from the regifters ofnine fuc-
cefiive years, he computes, that, in the country, the annual proportion of
deaths to births is as 1 to 35, or, if the year is remarkably healthy,: to 36 or
even 37 -, and at Stockholm as 1 to 20. He adds, that, during the fame-
period, there were 2036 men and 3540 women above the age of 90; of
whom 212 men and 328 women were between loaand 103 5 31 men and 76
womerj between 106 and 110422 men and 19 women between i n and 120 4
one man was 122 ; and one woman 127- At the end is a table of the marriages,
deaths, and births, from 1755 to 1763.
We find, in Cantzler’s * State of Sweden, that, in 1760, the population
amounted to 2,383,113 fouls ; that of thefe were 162,88s inhabitants of'
towns, exclufive of the nobility and clergy 4 and 2,220,225 perfons, living in
the country, including the nobility and clergy ; and that, according to á fair
calculation, the whole number might be claffed in the following proportion 2
10,645 nobles, comprizing 3597 under 15 years 4 18,197 ecclefiafticks and-
their families, and ftudents, including 7073 under 15; 162;888 inhabitants
of towns and their families engaged in arts, mauufaflures, and trades,-.
2,191,383 inhabitants of the country employed in agriculture, the mines, &c~
I ihall clofe this account with a lift of the births and deaths in Sweden,-,
and the number of inhabitants. The reader will not doubt its accuracy, when.
he is informed that I received ,ic from Mr. Wargentin.
The lift is clafled according to-the three great divifions of the kingdom.,
P . 186. Mémoires pour fervir à la formation,,.; cannot, he. to© h ig h ly recom--
cennoiiTance du Royaume de Sw ed e ; an- mended.,
excellent w o rk , w h ich ,, fo r ac cu ra cy and in--
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