[1061] Beamont, u. s. p. 116-17.

[1062] Ferriar, Med. Obs. and Reflections.

[1063] Price, Reversionary Payments. 4th ed. II.

[1064] Aikin, Phil. Trans. LXIV. (1774), p. 438; Haygarth, ibid. LXVIII. 131.

[1065] “Almost ended at the winter solstice, only 19 remaining ill in January, 1775.”

[1066] Percival, for Warrington, Med. Obs. and Inquiries, V. (1776), p. 272 (information from Arkin); Haygarth, for Chester, Phil. Trans. LXVIII. 150. Haygarth (Sketch of a Plan, &c. p. 141) gives the following table of the smallpox deaths and the deaths from all causes at several ages of children up to ten years at Chester from 1772 to 1777 inclusive:

Under
one
1-2 2-3 3-5 5-10 Total
Smallpox deaths 91 75 83 86 34 369
All other deaths 392 155 68 68 53 736

[1067] Sketch of a plan, &c. p. 31.

[1068] Heysham, Obs. on Bills of Mortality in Carlisle, 1779-1787. Carlisle, 1797. Reprinted from App. Vol. II. of Hutchinson’s Cumberland.

[1069] Lucas, Lond. Med. Journ. X. 260: “The number of those who were still uninfected was found on a survey to be 700.”