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Paper, 'Duration of human life in town and country compared' by Richard Price

Reference number: L&P/6/124

Date: 1775

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Subject: Demography

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Observations on the differences between the duration of human life in towns and country parishes and villages'

Read 22 June 1775

Reference number
L&P/6/124
Earliest possible date
1775
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Ink on paper
Page extent
24 pages
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Typescript
Manuscript

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Richard Price

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Richard Price, Paper, 'Duration of human life in town and country compared' by Richard Price, 1775, L&P/6/124, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_6_124/paper-duration-of-human-life-in-town-and-country-compared-by-richard-price, accessed on 13 October 2024

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