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| 12. | That it were better to maintain all Beggars at the publick Charge, though earning nothing, than to let them beg about the Streets; and that imploying them without discretion, may do more harm than good, | ibid. [353] | |
| 13. | That not one in two thousand are Murthered in London, with the Reasons thereof, | p. 30 [ 354 ] | |
| 14. | That not one in fifteen hundred dies Lunatick, | p. 31 [355] | |
| 15. | That few of those, who die of the French-Pox, are set down, but coloured under the Consumption, &c. | p. 33 [356] | |
| 16. | That the Rickets is a new Disease, both as to name, and thing; that from fourteen dying thereof, An. 1634. it hath gradually increased to above five hundred, An. 1660. | p. 34 [356] | |
| 17. | That there is another new Disease appearing; as A Stopping of the Stomach, which hath increased in twenty years, from six, to near three hundred, | p. 37 [358] | |
| 18. | That the Rising of the Lights (supposed in most Cases to be the Fits of the Mother) have also increased in thirty years, from fourty four, to two hundred fourty nine, | p. 38 [359] | |
| 19. | That both the Stopping of the Stomach, and Rising of the Lights, are probably Reliques of, or depending upon the Rickets, | p. 39 [359] | |
| 20. | That the Stone decreases, and is wearing away, | p. 40 [360] | |
| 21. | The Gout stands at a stay, | ibid. [360] | |
| 22. | The Scurvy increases, | ibid. [360] | |
| 23. | The Deaths by reason of Agues, are to those caused by Fevers, as one to forty, | p. 41 [360] | |
| 24. | Abortives, and Stilborn, to those that are Christned, are as one to twenty, | ibid. [360] | |
| 25. | That since the differences in Religion, the Christnings have been neglected half in half, | ibid. [361] | |
| 26. | That not one Woman in an hundred dies in Child-bed, nor one of two hundred in her Labour, | p. 42 [361] | |
| 27. | Three Reasons why the Registring of Children hath been neglected, | p. 43 [362] | |
| 28. | There was a confusion in the Accompts of Chrysoms, Infants, and Convulsions; but rectified in this Discourse, | ibid. [362] | |
| 29. | There have been in London, within this Age, four times of great Mortality, viz. Anno 1592, 1603, 1625, and 1636, whereof that of 1603 was the greatest, | p. 46 [363] | |
| 30. | Annis 1603, and 1625, about a fifth part of the whole died, and eight times more than were born, | p. 47 [364] | |
| 31. | That a fourth part more die of the Plague than are set down, | p. 48 [365] | |
| 32. | The Plague Anno 1603 lasted eight years, that in 1636 twelve years, but that in 1625 continued but one single year, | p. 49 [365] | |
| 33. | That Alterations in the Air do incomparably more operate as to the Plague, than the Contagion of Converse, | p. 50 [366] |
