(2) From a greater luxury and intemperance.
(3) From a greater intentness on business.
(4) From the unhealthfulness of the coal smoke.
(5) From a greater inequality of age between the husbands and wives.
(6) From the husbands and wives not living so long as in the country.
He further observes, accounting the people to be 5,500,000, that the said five millions and a half (including the transitory people and vagrants) appear by the assessments on marriages, births, and burials, to bear the following proportions in relation to males and females, and other distinctions of the people, viz.:—
SCHEME A.
| People. | Annual Marriages. In all. | Producing children each | ||
| 530,000 | London and bills of mortality | 1 in 106 | 5,000 | 4.0 |
| 870,000 | The cities and market towns | 1 in 128 | 6,800 | 4.5 |
| 4,100,000 | The villages and hamlets | 1 in 141 | 29,200 | 4.8 |
| 5,500,000 | 1 in 134 | 41,000 | 4.64 |
| Annual Births. | Annual Burials. | ||
|
| In all. |
| In all. |
London and bills of mortality | 1 in 26½ | 20,000 | 1 in 24.1 | 22,000 |
The cities and market towns | 1 in 28½ | 30,600 | 1 in 30.4 | 28,600 |
The villages and hamlets | 1 in 29.4 | 29,200 | 1 in 34.4 | 119,400 |
| 1 in 28.95 | 190,000 | 1 in 32.35 | 170,000 |