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 'And for the better execution of theſe Orders, and ſuch other Rules and Directions as upon further conſideration ſhall be found needful; It is ordered and enjoined that the Aldermen, Deputies, and Common-Council-men ſhall meet together weekly, once, twice, thrice, or oftner, (as cauſe ſhall require) at ſome one general Place accuſtomed in their reſpective Wards (being clear from Infection of the Plague) to conſult how the ſaid Orders may be duly put in Execution; not intending that any, dwelling in or near Places infected, ſhall come to the ſaid Meeting whiles their coming may be doubtful. And the ſaid Aldermen, and Deputies, and Common-Councilmen in their ſeveral Wards may put in Execution any other good Orders that by them at their ſaid Meetings ſhall be conceived and deviſed, for Preſervation of His Majeſty's Subjects from the Infection,'

I need not ſay, that theſe Orders extended only to ſuch Places as were within the Lord Mayor's jurisdiction; ſo it is requiſite to obſerve, that the Juſtices of Peace, within thoſe Pariſhes, and Places as were called the Hamlets, and Out-parts, took the ſame Method: As I remember, the Orders for ſhutting up of Houſes, did not take Place ſo ſoon on our Side, becauſe, as I ſaid before, the Plague did not reach to theſe Eaſtern Parts of the Town, at leaſt, nor begin to be very violent, till the beginning of Auguſt. For Example, the whole Bill from the 11th to the 18th of July, was 1761, yet there dy'd but 71 of the Plague, in all thoſe Pariſhes we call the Tower-Hamlets, and they were as follows. Algate