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1748. The plague began the 10th of May, and ended in November.
1749. It began the 16th of March, and ended the 20th of October.
1750. It began April 21st, and ended the 17th of September.
1751. It began the 15th of May, and continued all the summer, autumn, winter, and to the latter end of September 1752.
1753. It began May 31st, continued all the summer, autumn, winter, and till the 17th of September 1754.
1755. It began in June, but there was very little plague all this year.
1756. It began March the 6th, and ended the 12th of December.
1758. Then there was none till the 23d of April 1758, which ended in October.
1759. It began April 4th and ended about the 10th of September.
1760. It began April the 24th, and ended the 10th of November.
1761. It began the 10th of March, and continued till the 19th of December 1762. Since which day there has not been hitherto one accident, besides that of the young woman on the 11th of this month already mentioned.
In 1751, the 20th of October O.S. a vast quantity of snow fell, that cut off the distemper, and there was little plague in 1752. The former year was the most considerable, and more universally mortal at Constantinople than any in the space of fifteen years.
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