# An Abstract of the Bills of Mortality in Bridge-Town in Barbados for the Years 1737-1744. Communicated by the Rev. Mr. John Clark

**Author(s):** John Clark  
**Year:** 1748  
**Journal:** Philosophical Transactions (1683-1775)  
**Volume:** 45  
**Pages:** 2 pages  
**Identifier:** jstor-104555  
**JSTOR URL:** <https://www.jstor.org/stable/104555>  

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XIII. An Abstract of the Bills of Mortality in Bridge-Town in Barbados for the Years 1737 ——— 1744. communicated by the Rev. Mr. John Clark.

Read May 26. Bridge-Town, Barbadoes.

| An. Dom. | Born | Males | Females | Baptiz'd | Buried |
|----------|------|-------|---------|----------|--------|
| 1737     | 52   | 26    | 26      | 77       | 208    |
| 1738     | 81   | 41    | 40      | 106      | 250    |
| 1739     | 91   | 54    | 37      | 119      | 244    |
| 1740     | 91   | 49    | 42      | 123      | 242    |
| 1741     | 68   | 33    | 35      | 95       | 261    |
| 1742     | 87   | 42    | 45      | 130      | 296    |
| 1743     | 92   | 43    | 49      | 126      | 252    |
| 1744     | 89   | 46    | 43      | 120      | 166    |

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XIV. The Elements of a Short Hand, by Samuel Jeake Esq;.

Read May 26. A Succession of new Short-Hands published without the Reason of their Construction, having put me on forming a Method founded on Nature, the only Guide to Perfection, I settled an Alphabet in the following Manner.

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