the mother, whatever became of
the child; and many times both mother and child were lost in the same
manner; and especially where the mother had the distemper, there nobody
would come near them and both sometimes perished. Sometimes the mother
has died of the plague, and the infant, it may be, half born, or born
but not parted from the mother. Some died in the very pains of their
travail, and not delivered at all; and so many were the cases of this
kind that it is hard to judge of them.

Something of it will appear in the unusual numbers which are put into
the weekly bills (though I am far from allowing them to be able to give
anything of a full account) under the articles of--

Child-bed.
Abortive and Still-born.
Christmas and Infants.

Take the weeks in which the plague was most violent, and compare them
with the weeks before the distemper began, even in the same year. For
example:--

Child-bed. Abortive. Still-born.
From January 3 to January 10 7 1 13
" " 10 " 17 8 6 11
" " 17 " 24 9 5 15
" " 24 " 31 3 2 9
" " 31 to February 7 3 3 8
" February 7 " 14 6 2 11
" " 14 " 21 5 2 13
" " 21 " 28 2 2 10
" " 28 to March 7 5 1 10
- --- --- ----
- 48 24 100

From August 1 to August 8 25 5 11
" " 8 " 15 23 6 8
" " 15 " 22 28 4 4
" " 22 " 29 40 6 10
" " 29 to September 5 38 2 11
September 5 " 12 39 23 ...
" " 12 " 19 42 5 17
" " 19 " 26 42 6 10
" " 26 to October 3 14 4 9
- --- -- ---
- 291 61 80

To the disparity of these numbers it is to be considered and allowed
for, that according to our usual opinion w