Observations on the general bills of mortality / by W. Hawes, author of the preceding address, &c.

  • Hawes, William, 1736-1808.
Date:
[1783]
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Credit: Observations on the general bills of mortality / by W. Hawes, author of the preceding address, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    , ( Si ) dreds of young Children are facrificed annu-* < ■ # ally to Careleffnefs and Inattention. “ Shot/' -------jf Accidents neither private, military nor ,> i naval can be included under this Head ; if they could, it would be gladTidings to the feeling Mind. “ Suffocated/' are only fet down at ^ — — — — If the various Kinds of Death in Confe- quence of Suffocation are to be underftood by the Reader, the Number is greatly un¬ der the Mark; if only thofe who are ge¬ nerally termed fuffocated, it is too many ; as by immediate, judicious Medical Aid, the greater Part might have been refcored to public Utility. CON-