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 Houſe; and of the ſame Diſtemper: And then we were eaſy again for about ſix Weeks, when none having died with any Marks of Infection, it was ſaid, the Diſtemper was gone; but after that; I think it was about the 22th of February, another died in another Houſe, but in the ſame Pariſh, and in the ſame manner.

This turn’d the Peoples Eyes pretty much towards that End of the Town; and the weekly Bills ſhewing an Encreaſe of Burials in St. Giles’s Pariſh more than uſual, it began to be ſuſpected, that the Plague was among the People at that End of the Town; and that many had died of it, tho' they had taken Care to keep it as much from the Knowlege of the Publick, as poſſible: This poſſeſs'd the Heads of the People very much, and few car'd to go thro’ Drury-Lane, or the other Streets ſuſpected, unleſs they had extraordinary Buſineſs, that obliged them to it.

This Encreaſe of the Bills ſtood thus; the uſual Number of Burials in a Week, in the Pariſhes of St. Giles’s in the Fields, and St. Andrew's Holborn were from 12 to 17 or 19 each few more or leſs; but from the Time that the Plague firſt began in St. Giles's Pariſh, it was obſerv'd, that the ordinary Burials encreaſed in Number conſiderably. For Example,

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