hutting up their houses.
For example:--

_Dead of other Diseases besides the Plague._

From the 18th to the 25th of July 942
To the 1st of August 1,004
To the 8th 1,213
To the 15th 1,439
To the 22d 1,331
To the 29th 1,394
To the 5th of September 1,264
To the 12th 1,056
To the 19th 1,132
To the 26th 927

Now, it was not doubted but the greatest part of these, or a great part
of them, were dead of the plague; but the officers were prevailed with
to return them as above, and the numbers of some particular articles of
distempers discovered is as follows:--

Aug. 1-8. Aug. 8-15. Aug. 15-22. Aug. 22-29.

Fever 314 353 348 383
Spotted fever 174 190 166 165
Surfeit 85 87 74 99
Teeth 90 113 111 133
--- --- --- ---
663 743 699 780

Aug. 29-Sept. 5. Sept. 5-12. Sept. 12-19. Sept. 19-26.

Fever 364 332 309 268
Spotted Fever 157 97 101 65
Surfeit 68 45 49 36
Teeth 138 128 121 112
--- --- --- ---
727 602 580 481

There were several other articles which bore a proportion to these, and
which it is easy to perceive were increased on the same account; as
aged,[279] consumptions, vomitings, imposthumes,[280] gripes, and the
like, many of which were not doubted to be infected people; but as it
was of the utmost consequence to families not to be known to be
infected, if it was possible to avoid it, so they took all the measures
they could to have it not believed, and if any died in their houses, to
get them returned to the examiners, and by the searchers, as having died
of other distempers.

This, I say, will account for the long interval which, as I have said,
was between the dying of the first persons that were returned in the
bills to