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 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—­

From the 12th of September to the 19th—­ — St Giles, Cripplegate 456 — St Giles-in-the-Fields 140 — Clarkenwell 77 — St Sepulcher 214 — St Leonard, Shoreditch 183 — Stepney parish 716 — Aldgate 623 — Whitechappel 532 — In the ninety-seven parishes within the walls 1493 — In the eight parishes on Southwark side 1636 - ----- — Total 6060

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:—­

From the 19th of September to the 26th—­ — St Giles, Cripplegate 277 — St Giles-in-the-Fields 119 — Clarkenwell 76 — St Sepulchers 193 — St Leonard, Shoreditch 146 — Stepney parish 616 — Aldgate 496 — Whitechappel 346 — In the ninety-seven parishes within the walls 1268 — In the eight parishes on Southwark side 1390 - ----- — Total