| Essays on Mankind and Political Arithmetic Contributor(s): Petty, William (Author), Petty, Sir William (Author) |
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ISBN: 1419118374 ISBN-13: 9781419118371 Publisher: Kessinger Publishing OUR PRICE: $18.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2004 Annotation: That at London the hospitals are better and more desirable than those of Paris, for that in the best at Paris there die two out of fifteen, whereas at London there die out of the worst scarce 2 out of 16, and yet but a fiftieth part of the whole die out of the hospitals at London, and two-fifths, or twenty times that proportion die out of the Paris hospitals which are of the same kind; that is to say, the number of those at London, who choose to lie sick in hospitals rather than in their own houses, are to the like people of Paris as one to twenty; which shows the greater poverty or want of means in the people of Paris than those of London. |
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