Some calculations of the number of accidents or deaths which happen in consequence of parturition : and of the proportions of male to female children, as well as of twins, monstrous productions, and children that are dead-born ... With an attempt to ascertain the chance of life at different periods ... and likewise the proportion of natives to the rest of the inhabitants of London. In a letter to Samuel Foart Simmons ... Read at the Royal Society, May 10, 1781, and published in the Philosophical transactions, vol. LXXI / by Robert Bland.

  • Bland, R. (Robert), 1730-1816.
Date:
1781
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Credit: Some calculations of the number of accidents or deaths which happen in consequence of parturition : and of the proportions of male to female children, as well as of twins, monstrous productions, and children that are dead-born ... With an attempt to ascertain the chance of life at different periods ... and likewise the proportion of natives to the rest of the inhabitants of London. In a letter to Samuel Foart Simmons ... Read at the Royal Society, May 10, 1781, and published in the Philosophical transactions, vol. LXXI / by Robert Bland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SO ME A L G U L A X I O? N S, See. DEAR SI R,. HE great advantage of hofpitals and other fimilar inftltu- tions, in improving and difleminating medical know¬ ledge, is generally acknowledged ; but there are other purpofes they feem equally calculated to anfwer, which, though fubor- dinate to the former, may yet deferve attention, as they may throw light upon, and perhaps finally determine, certain poli¬ tical queftions, about which various opinions are at prefent entertained. Thus, though it is known that this city contains perfons from various countries, and that a very frnall por¬ tion of its inhabitants are natives ; yet the proportion which the latter bear to the aliens cam at prefent only be guefled at». A But:;