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In Enfield 32 Hertford 90 Brent-Wood 70
In Hornſey 58 Ware 160 Rumford 109
In Newington 17 Hodſdon 30 Barking abt. 200
In Tottenham 42 Waltham Ab. 23 Branford 432
In Edmonton 19 Epping 26 Kingſton 122
In Barnet and Hadly 43 Deptford 623 Stanes 82
In St. Albans 121 Greenwich 231 Chertſey 18
In Watford 45 Eltham and Luſum 85 Windſor 103
In Uxbridge 117 Croydon 61 cum aliis.

Another thing might render the Country more ſtrict with reſpect to the Citizens, and eſpecially with reſpect to the Poor; and this was what I hinted at before, namely, that there was a ſeeming propenſity, or a wicked Inclination in thoſe that were Infected to infect others.

There have been great Debates among our Phyſicians, as to the Reaſon of this; ſome will have it to be in the Nature of the Diſeaſe,and that it impreſſes every one that is ſeized upon by it, with a kind of a Rage, and a hatred againſt their own Kind, as if there was a malignity, not only in the Diſtemper to communicate it ſelf, but in the very Nature of Man, prompting him with evil Will, or an evil Eye, that as they ſay in the Caſe of a mad Dog, who tho’ the gentleſt Creature before of any of his Kind, yet then will fly upon and bite any one that comes next him and thoſe as ſoon as any, who had been moſt obſerv’d by him before.

Others plac’d it to the Account of the Corruption of humane Nature, which cannot bear to fee itſelf more miſerable than others of its own Specie, and has a kind, of involuntary Wiſh, that all Men were as unhappy, or in as bad a Condition as itſelf.

Others ſay, it was only a kind of Deſperation, not knowing or regarding what they did, and conſequently unconcern’d at the Danger or Safety, not only of any Body near them, but even of themſelves