[1003] Ibid. 1747, p. 623. The population of Northampton in 1746 was 5136. Price, Revers. Payments. 4th ed. I. 353.
[1004] Part of the account extracted from the parish registers by the Rev. Samuel Partridge, F.S.A., vicar of Boston, and sent to Dr George Pearson, who published it in the Report of the Vaccine Pock Institution for 1800-1802. London, 1803, p. 100.
[1005] J. C. M’Vail, M.D. in Proc. Philos. Soc. Glasgow, XIII. 1882, p. 381, from a MS. register kept by the session clerk of Kilmarnock, now in the General Register House, Edinburgh. The baptisms and burials have not been extended from the MS. for more years than the table shows.
[1006] Statist. Acct. of Scotland.
[1007] Sketch of a Plan, &c. 1793, pp. 33-34.
[1008] The following is the Ackworth bill given by Price, Phil. Trans. LXV. 443.
| 1747-57 | 1757-67 | |||
| Christened | 127 | 212 | ||
| Buried | 107 | 156 | ||
| Consumption | 23 | 38 | ||
| Dropsy | 5 | 3 | ||
| Fevers | 35 | 23 | ||
| Infancy | 13 | 13 | ||
| Old age | 24 | 30 | ||
| Smallpox | 1 | 13 | ||
| Chincough | — | 2 | ||
| Convulsions | — | 6 | ||
| Dysentery | — | 2 | ||
| Measles | — | 2 | ||
| Sundries | 6 | 24 | ||
| Total deaths in ten years | 107 | 156 |
[1009] The following are some examples of rural fecundity and health: Middleton, near Manchester, 1763-72, births 1560, deaths 993, average of 4·75 children to a marriage. Tattenhall, near Chester, 1764-73, births 280, deaths 130; Waverton, same county and years, births 193, deaths 84. Stoke Damerel (now the dockyard near Plymouth), in 1733 (in part an influenza-year), births 122, deaths 62, population 3361. Landward townships of Manchester in 1772, births 401, deaths 246. Darwen, in 1774-80, births 508, deaths 233, population 1850. From Papers in Phil. Trans. by Percival and others.
[1010] Statist. Acct. of Scot. I. 155.
[1011] Hoare’s Wiltshire, VI. 521. There had been a general inoculation to the number of 422, from 13 August, 1751, to February, 1752, just before the epidemic. Brown to Watson, in Phil. Trans. XLVII. 570.