Among some of the advantages in medical, political, and moral science, which would result, were proper parochial registers and bills of mortality established and kept throughout the united kingdom, the following present:
I. Medically.—They point out:
1. The causes of many diseases, and their affinity to one another.
2. The rise, situation, increase, decrease, and cessation of epidemic and contagious diseases.
3. The means of guarding against their extension and effects.
4. The comparative healthiness of different countries and places, climates and seasons.
5. The influence of particular trades and manufactures on the human constitution.
6. They elucidate many important and dubious medical points essential to the perfection of the preventive and curative arts.
II. Politically.—They are a means: