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EXPLANATION OF THE CONSTRUCTION AND USE OF THE 
TABLES IN PART II. 
The principal tables in this work being deduced from the Carlisle 
and Northampton Tables of Mortality, the following extracts are from the 
works of Dr. Price and Mr. Milne, explaining the materials from which 
they were formed. 
(Northampton Table, Ur. Price, 7th edition, pp. 95 and 105.) 
In this town, containing four parishes, namely. All-Saints’, St. 
Giles’, St. Sepulchre’s, and St. Peter’s, an account has been kept, ever 
since the year 1741, of the number of males and females that have been 
christened and buried (Dissenters included) in the whole town. And 
in the parish of All-Saints, containing the greatest part of the town, an 
account has been kept, ever since 1735, of the ages at which all have 
died there. 
In 1746, an account was taken of the number of houses and in 
habitants in the town ; the number of houses was found to be 1083, and 
the number of inhabitants 5136. In the parishes of All-Saints and St. 
Giles, the number of male and female heads of families, servants, lodgers, 
and children were particularly distinguished—the Heads of families were 
707 males and 846 females ; Children, males, 624, females, 759; Ser 
vants, males, 203, females, 280. In St. Peter’s, males, 99; females, 129. 
In St. Sepulchre’s, adults, 689 ; children, 477. In the last parish sexes 
were not distinguished. 
The christenings and burials in the whole town for forty years, from 
1741 to 1780, have been as follows :— 
Christened 
(Males . 
| Females 
3218' 
3108 
j> 6326. 
Annual medium 158. 
Buried 
(Males . 
( Females 
3757 
3823 
[• 7580. 
Annual medium 1,89^. 
In the parish 
of All-Saints, 
, from 1735 to 1780, or 46 years,— 
Christened 
(Males . 
( Females 
21521 
2068 j 
► 4220. 
Annual medium 9If. 
Buried 
(Males . 
1 Females 
23771 
2312 ( 
> 4689. 
Annual medium 102.