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the Town; and ſo as it came on one way, it abated another. For Example.

It began at St. Giles’s and the Weſtminſter End of the Town, and it was in its Height in all that part by about the Middle of July, viz. in St. Giles in the Fields, St. Andrew's Holborn, St. Clement-Danes, St. Martins in the Fields, and in Weſtminſter: The latter End of July it decreaſed in thoſe Pariſhes, and coming Eaſt, it encreaſed prodigiouſly in Cripplegate, St. Sepulchers, St. Ja. Clarkenwell, and St. Brides, and Alderſgate; while it was in all theſe Pariſhes, the City and all the Pariſhes of the Southwark Side of the Water, and all Stepney, White-Chapel, Aldgate, Wapping, and Ratcliff were very little touch’d; ſo that People went about their Buſineſs unconcern’d, carryed on their Trades, kept open their Shops, and converſed freely with one another in all the City, the Eaſt and North-Eaſt Suburbs, and in Southwark, almoſt as if the Plague had not been among us.

Even when the North and North-weft Suburbs were fully infected, viz. Cripplegate, Clarkenwell, Biſhopſgate, and Shoreditch, yet ſtill all the reſt were tolerably well. For Example,

From 25th July to 1ſt Auguſt the Bill ſtood thus of all Diſeaſes;

St. Giles Cripplegate 554
St. Sepulchers 250
Clarkenwell 103
Biſhopſgate 116
Shoreditch 110
Stepney Pariſh 127
Aldgate 92
White-Chappel 104
All the 97 Pariſhes within the Walls 228
All the Pariſhes in Southwark 207
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