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386 are fourteen Men for thirteen Women, as elsewhere hath been said.

8. We have (though perhaps too much at Random) determined the number of the Inhabitants of London to be about 384000: the which being granted, we assert, that 199112 are Males, and 184186 Females.

9. Whereas we have found, that of 100 quick Conceptions about 36 of them die before they be six years old, and that perhaps but one surviveth 76 ; we having seven De-|84|cads between six and 76, we sought six mean proportional numbers between 64, the remainder, living at six years, and the one, which survives 76, and find, that the numbers following are practically near enough to the truth; for men do not die in exact proportions, nor in Fractions, from whence arises this Table following.