Aldersgate. While it was in all these parishes, the city and
all the parishes of the Southwark side of the water, and all Stepney,
Whitechapel, Aldgate, Wapping, and Ratcliff, were very little touched;
so that people went about their business unconcerned, carried on their
trades, kept open their shops, and conversed freely with one another in
all the city, the east and northeast suburbs, and in Southwark, almost
as if the plague had not been among us.

Even when the north and northwest suburbs were fully infected, viz.,
Cripplegate, Clerkenwell, Bishopsgate, and Shoreditch, yet still all the
rest were tolerably well. For example:--

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

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
-----
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