St. Giles’s, Cripplegate 554
St. Sepulchre’s 250
Clerkenwell 103
Bishopsgate 116
Shoreditch 110
Stepney Parish 127
Aldgate 92
Whitechapel 104
All the 97 parishes within the walls 228
All the parishes in Southwark 205

          
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                           1,889

So that, in short, there died more that week in the two parishes of Cripplegate and St. Sepulchre’s by forty-eight than all the city, all the east suburbs, and all the Southwark parishes put together.  This caused the reputation of the city’s health to continue all over England, and especially in the counties and markets adjacent, from whence our supply of provisions chiefly came, even much longer than that health itself continued; for when the people came into the streets from the country by Shoreditch and Bishopsgate, or by Old Street and Smithfield, they would see the outstreets empty, and the houses and shops shut, and the few people that were stirring there walk in the middle of the streets; but when they came within the city, there things looked better, and the markets and shops were open, and the people walking about the streets as usual, though not quite so many; and this continued till the latter end of August and the beginning of September.

But then the case altered quite; the distemper abated in the west and northwest parishes, and the weight of the infection lay on the city and the eastern suburbs, and the Southwark side, and this in a frightful manner.

Then indeed the city began to look dismal, shops to be shut, and the streets desolate.  In the High Street, indeed, necessity made people stir abroad on many occasions; and there would be in the middle of the day a pretty many[259] people, but in the mornings and evenings scarce any to be seen even there, no, not in Cornhill and Cheapside.

These observations of mine were abundantly confirmed by the weekly bills of mortality for those weeks, an abstract of which, as they respect the parishes which I have mentioned, and as they make the calculations I speak of very evident, take as follows.

The weekly bill which makes out this decrease of the burials in the west and north side of the city stands thus:—­

St. Giles’s, Cripplegate 456
St. Giles-in-the-Fields 140
Clerkenwell 77
St. Sepulchre’s 214
St. Leonard, Shoreditch 183
Stepney Parish 716
Aldgate 629
Whitechapel 532
In the 97 parishes within the walls 1,493
In the 8 parishes on Southwark side 1,636

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                                     6,076