Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1806-06-19
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PoAtico. Ari thmeticaly Considered.

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SUPPos1NG the earth peopled with
| 100, 100000 of Inhabitants, and allowing
50 years for generation, it has been COM
puted that the deaths of each ear, amaunt
to 100000; of each day, TO 82,135; OF
each hour, to 3,442 7.24.
f. But as the number of births, as 10 to 70,
there are born every year, 100000 /;
every day, $3.50; erery hour 4,lo7 l.2a:
If maokind had not been doomed 20 die,
there would have been at present about
10000, GOO OF mortals on the earth and
| in thls case, there would still have been
9l1o square feet of earth remaining for each
/ man. :.
| Reckoning only three generations during
century, and supposing at the same time,
tha the world Eas only existed 200 years,
shere have been only 174 generations from
the creation to our Owl time, 124 since
the deluge, and S. since the christian sra
row as no family in Europe can trace its
| origin to the time of Charcmagne, it fol,
lows, that the most ancient houses canrot
| reckon more than thirty generations, and
very few, if any, can go so far back; but
supposing it to be the case what is this but
1000 years illustrious, against $500 years
Of obscurity.
Out Of every 1000 men, % thereof die
annually.
The number of inhabitants Of city
or country is renewed nearly every 80
years.
Of 200 children, no more than one dies
in the birth.
Of 100. one does not die during the
mothers lying in,
Of 1000 infants, fed by means of the
mothers milk, not above 800 die; but of
the same number reared by wet nurses,
500 die. The mor,ality of children has
augmented greatly during the present luSu
rious age; convulsions and teeshing kill
the greatest number of them.
The natural small pox usually carries of
Sin every 100 attacked by it; but of 800
lnoculated, no more than one dies.
Among 1925 who die, it appears by the
registers that there is oaly one person OF
700 years OF age.
More old men are to be found on elevat.
ed places, than on plalns and vallies.
The proportion between the deaths OF
women and that Of men, is as 100 to 1Os.
The probable duration OF fsmale lives is
so; bat at that period, the calculation is
more favorable TO them than to the males.
Married women live longer than mai
dens.
In the country the spring is,hc most
fatal period, but in the cities it is the win.
| ter.
One half of those who are born, die be.
fore they az in the age of seventeen.
The number of ole men who die In cold
weather is to the number Of those who die
1 ia warm weather, as z to q.
According to the observation Of Boer'
| have, the mos. healthy children are born
| in the month"; of January, February and
| March.
| rie9 in the ratio of TO 3; and the married
to the unmarried men, as 3 70 5. The
! number Of twins born is TO that of sipg,e
| children, as to IS or 20.
The number of marriages is to that OF
the inhabitants of the country as rs to
| 1000.
In the country there are but children
| produced by every marriage; in cities
| there are but s. in o marriages.
| The men able to bear arms form the 18th
part of the inhabitants of country.
An ancient register gives the following
very Notifying instance of the brevity OF
human life, in an hundred persons who
were born at the same time: