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Rh marriages than usual to take place, supposing the number of houses to remain the same, instead of five or six to a cottage, there must be seven or eight, and this, added to the necessity of harder living, would probably have a very unfavourable effect on the health of the common people.

"Epidemics prevailed for six years, from 1736, to 1741, which checked the increase."

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