Letter 3524

Signature Missing to Hans Sloane – November 20, 1728


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Date: November 20, 1728
Author: Signature Missing
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4050
Folio: f. 8



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The author possesses ‘the Bills of Mortality of many foreign Cities’. The quality of such reports, even that of London, is less than adequate. The author suggests that Sloane ‘propose to a General Court of your Company a regulation of the said Bill by adding an other Column for the specification of Death’. Including the cause of death would ‘be a great service done to the Publick’.




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