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Paper, 'Further considerations on the population of Manchester and the Warrington bills of mortaility for 1773' by Thomas Percival

Reference number: L&P/6/55

Date: 1774

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24 pages of manuscript, with 12 pages in typescript. Contains tables.

Subject: Demography

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'The bill of mortality of the town of Warrington, for the year 1773'

Read 12 May 1774

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L&P/6/55
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1774
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Ink on paper
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32 pages
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Typescript
Manuscript

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Thomas Percival

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Thomas Percival, Paper, 'Further considerations on the population of Manchester and the Warrington bills of mortaility for 1773' by Thomas Percival, 1774, L&P/6/55, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_6_55/paper-further-considerations-on-the-population-of-manchester-and-the-warrington-bills-of-mortaility-for-1773-by-thomas-percival, accessed on 12 May 2025

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