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Any cow who will stop to reflict

will, I think,

6, readily admit that in collecting

information from

statistics involving, small

numbers, the inquiry is pursued under

circumilanci

of disadvantage,

corrected

by extending

In

a

which

it over a series

can

Every

only be

of years.

on to limited as

population

that of Hongkong it is impossible to drawd

any accurate inference touching, the relative proportion of death to life or of disease to

" from the computations of in

health".

tio

years. If a certain peculiarity is found to be

repeated for several

· years,

and to bear a certain

and uniform relation to fixed numbers, or if the

be in excess one year

same peculiarity

and

it can

the

a

reverse the next, yet, should it establish c uniform average for several years, hereafter be predicted to be a property of

the