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

Here is a strange change of things indeed, and a sad change it was;
and, had it held for two months more than it did, very few people would
have been left alive; but then such, I say, was the merciful disposition
of God, that when it was thus, the west and north part, which had been
so dreadfully visited at first, grew, as you see, much better; and, as
the people disappeared here, they began to look abroad again there; and
the next week or two altered it still more, that is, more to the
encouragement of the other part of the town. For example:--

Sept. 19-26.
St. Giles's, Cripplegate 277
St. Giles-in-the-Fields 119
Clerkenwell 76
St. Sepulchre's 193
St. Leonard, Shoreditch 146
Stepney Parish 616
Aldgate 496
Whitechapel 346
In the 97 parishes within the walls 1,268
In the 8 parishes on Southwark side 1,390
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