APPENDIX.
: Ap p e n d ix a .
T he annexed documents, as far as they can-We relief on, afford'evidence of, an Api’ENBIX..
extent of .mortality in Batavia, asi compared. With the number' of inhabitants, that was ■
perhaps never exampled, for the same space of time, in,any other-quarter of the woijd.
PThe Table jNoi I, incomplete as'it'is^wasdrawn out with a i much exactness, as
tlie original lists and registers still in possession would admit of In explanation of
'-jsqme, inconsistencies which are exhibited in it, it is necessary .to- observe^ that on the
occasion of the capture of this island, part ofwEer most valuable'papers'were: lost, or '
destroyed, and amongst them the register in which was stated the- Chinese population,
anjpUie number of their deaths and marriages annually, which is, ithe reason why no
mention is made of them in this table.
.iThe first and third columns contain only the numbers of European inhabitants. 1,1
The last_column, which shews the deaths of the Natives, and SfinjeSy is probably a list
of the deceased slaves only; because there was a separate .list kept of the natives
who died annually in the Batavian jurisdiction, which however was fgw.a long tim'e
incorrect, and at last,destroyed in 1811. .
J it is also probable, that the' column of deaths generally does not extend farther than
in the town and immediate suburbs; and the Other two colums of baptisms and marriages
extend over the town, suburbs,^and environs together.
The specific lists kept in the different hospitals were likewisejpst. This is to be
particularly lamented, because they would have shewn, how many of the Europ^un
deaths were inhabitants, military- persons, strangers, Or sadors' or - marines from the
the ships of the different nations in Batavia Roads, who:Tail sent their sick men into
the hospitals of Batavia, whopvhen dead were-comprehended in the i number ^of
European. deaths. This circumstance explains- the incorrectness which appears to
exist in the'two statements of the living‘.and- deceased Europeans.
. Tbe Table No; II. was discovered1 atqpng‘the records of the Dutch government at
Batavia, and in the absence of a more official document, may perhaps, on that
account, be entitled to some confidence.
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