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 Take the Weeks in which the Plague was moſt violent, and compare them with the Weeks before the Diſtemper began, even in the ſame Year: For Example: Child bed. Abort. Stil-born.

To the Diſparity of theſe Numbers, is to be conſidered and allow’d for, that according to our uſual Opinion, who were then upon the Spot, there were not one third of the People in the Town, during the Months of August and September, as were in the Months of January and February: In a Word, the uſual Number that uſed to die of theſe three Articles; and as I hear, did die of them the Year before, was thus: