mple from 25th July to 1st August the
bill stood thus of all diseases:--

St Giles, Cripplegate 554
St Sepulchers 250
Clarkenwell 103
Bishopsgate 116
Shoreditch 110
Stepney parish 127
Aldgate 92
Whitechappel 104
All the ninety-seven parishes within the walls 228
All the parishes in Southwark 205
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- Total 1889

So that, in short, there died more that week in the two parishes of
Cripplegate and St Sepulcher by forty-eight than in 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 out-streets 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
north-west 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 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