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the PLAUGE.
57
Algate 14 the next
Week was,
thus.
34 and to the,
1ſt of Aug.,
thus.
65
Stepney 33 58 76
White-Chappel 21 48 79
St. Kath. Tower 2 4 4
Trin. Minories 1 1 4
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  71   145   228

It was indeed, coming on a main; for the Burials that ſame Week, were in the next adjoining Pariſhes, thus,

St. Len. Shorditch 64 the next Week
prodigiouſly en-
creaſed,
84 to the 1ſt
of Aug.
thus
110
St. But. Biſhopſg. 65 105 116
St. Giles Crippl. 213 421 554
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  342   610   780

This ſhutting up of houſes was at firſt counted a very cruel and Unchriſtian Method, and the poor People ſo confin'd made bitter Lamentations; Complaints of the Severity of it, were alſo daily brought to my Lord Mayor, of Houſes cauſeleſſly, (and ſome maliciouſly) ſhut up: I cannot ſay, but upon Enquiry, many that complained ſo loudly, were found in a Condition to be continued, and others again Inſpection being made upon the ſick Perſon, and the Sickneſs not appearing infections, or if uncertain, yet, on his being content to be carried to the Peſt-Houſe, were releaſed.

It is true, that the locking up the Doors of Peoples Houſes, and ſetting a Watchman there Night and Day, to prevent their ſtirring out, or any coming to them, when, perhaps, the ſound People, in the Family, might have eſcaped, if they had been remov'd from the Sick, looked very hard and cruel; and many People periſhed in theſe miſerable Confinements, which 'tis reaſon-able