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Number of Deaths—continued.
Childbed 42
Chrisomes 18
Consumption 134
Convulsions 64
Cough 2
Dropsie 33
Feaver 309
Flox and Small-pox 5
Frighted 3
Gowt 1
Grief 3
Griping in the Guts 51
Jaundies 5
Imposthume 11
Infants 16
Killed by a fall from the Belfry
at Alhallows the Great 1
King's Evil 2
Lethargy 1
Palsie 1
Number of Deaths—continued.
Plague 7165
Rickets 17
Rising of the Lights 11
Scouring 5
Scurvy 2
Spleen 1
Spotted Feaver 101
Stilborn 17
Stone 2
Stopping of the Stomach 9-
Strangury 1
Suddenly 1
Surfeit 49
Teeth 121
Thrush 5
Timpany 1
Tissick 11
Vomiting 3
Winde 3
Wormes 15
Christened 352
Busied.
Males 4095
8297
Females 4202
Increased in burials this week 607
Parishes clear of the Plague 4
Parishes infected 126
The assize of bread set forth by order of the Lord Maior and Court of
Aldermen. A penny wheaten loaf to contain nine ounces and a half, and
three halfpenny white loaves the like weight.
It may be remarked, that the enormous discrepancy between
the number of baptisms and burials which at this period
is observable throughout the Metropolis, extended to the City
and liberties of Westminster, the number of baptisms in Westminster
for the week in question being only 23, while the
burials numbered 710, of which no less than 613 were