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Childbed 625
Chrisomes and Infants 1,258
Cold and Cough 68
Consumption and Tissick 4,808
Convulsion and Mother 2,036
Distracted 5
Dropsie and Timpany 1,478
Drowned 50
Executed 21
Flox and Smal-pox 655
Found dead in streets, fields etc. 20
French Pox 86
Frighted 23
Gout and Sciatica 27
Grief 46
Griping in the Guts 1,288
Hangd and made away themselves 7
Headmouldshot and Mouldfallen 14
Impostume 227
Jaundies 110
Kild by severall Accidents 46
King's Evill 86
Leprosie 2
Lethargy 14
Livergrowne 20
Meagrom and Headach 12
Measles 7
Murthered and Shot 9
Overlain and Starved 45
Palsie 30
Plague 68,596
Plannet 6
Plurisie 15
Poysoned 1
Quinsie 35
Rickets 535
Rising of the Lights 397
Rupture 34
Scurvy 105
Shingles and Swine Pox 2
Sores, Ulcers, broken and bruised Limbs 82
Spleen 14
Spotted Feaver and Purples 1,929
Stone and Stranguary 98
Stopping of the Stomack 332
Surfet 1,251
Teeth and Worms 2,614
Vomiting 51
Wenn 1
Christened Males 5,114
Females 4,853
In all 9,967
Buried Males 48,569
Females 48,737
In all 97,306
Of the Plague
68,596
Increase in the Burials in the 130 Parishes and at the Pest-house this year 79,009
Increase of the Plague in the 130 Parishes and the Pest-house this year 68,590


In 1728 the ages at death were included, and the Bills were embellished with an ornamental margin of skulls and crossbones,