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The Novels and Miscellaneous Works of Daniel De Foe
The Novels and Miscellaneous Works of Daniel De Foe Author:Daniel Defoe Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: From Dec. 20th to Dec. 27th, St. Bride's 0 St. James 8 Dec. 27th to Jan. 3rd, St. Bride's 6 St. James 9 Jan. 3rd to Jan. 10th, St. Bride's 11 St. James... more » 7 Jan. 10th to Jan. 17th, St. Bride's 12 St. James 9 Jan. 17th to Jan. 24th, St. Bride's 9 St. James 15 Jan. 24th, to Jan. 31st, St. Bride's 8 St. James 12 Jan. 31st to Feb. 7th, St. Bride's 13 St. James 5 Feb. 7th to Feb. 14th, St. Bride's 12 St. James 6 Besides this, it was observed with great uneasiness by the people, that the weekly bills in general increased very much during these weeks, although it was at a time of the year when usually the bills are very moderate. The usual number of burials within the bills of mortality for a week, was from about two hundred- and-forty, or thereabouts. to three hundred. The last was esteemed a pretty high bill; but after this we found the bills successively increasing, as follows : Increased. December 20, to the 27th, Buried 291 27, to the 3rd Jan. 349 58 January 3, to the 10th, 394 45 10, to the 17th, 415 21 17, to the 24th, 474 59 chapter{Section 4This last bill was really frightful, being a higher number than had been known to have been buried in one week, since the preceding visitation of 1656. However, all this went off again, and the weather proving cold, and the frost, which began in December, still continuing very severe, even till near the end of February, attended with sharp though moderate winds, the bills decreased again, and the city grew healthy, and everybody began to look upon the danger as good as over ; only that still the burials in St. Giles's continued high. From the beginning of April, especially, they stood at twenty- five each week, till the week from the 18th to the 25th, when there was buried in St. Giles's ...« less