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 Now it was not doubted, but the greateſt part of theſe, or a great part of them, were dead of the Plague, but the Officers were prevail’d with to return them as above, and the Numbers of ſome particular Articles of Diſtempers diſcover’d is, as follows;

There were ſeveral other Articles which bare a Proportion to theſe, and which it is eaſy to perceive, were increaſed on the ſame Account, as Aged, Conſumptions, Vomitings, Impoſthumes, Gripes, and the like, many of which were not doubted to be infected People; but as it was of the utmoſt Conſequence to Families not to be known to be infected, if it was poſſible to avoid it, ſo they took all the meaſures they could to have it not believ’d; and if any died in their Houſes to get them return’d to the