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what they had amounted to in former years; whereas y* 3 
proceeding years came soe near each other y*‘ y* 2 greatest. 
w™ were equall, did not exceed y* least by more y" 4 persons, 
and y° 4", which differ most, fell but 42 short of the largest ; 
a small difference, when our whole consists of soe many hun- 
dred. This I impute to y® flight of soe many English Pro- 
testants y' were frighted out of y° town, as well as y* rest of 
y° Kingdom, by the L* Tirconnell’s being put into y Govern- 
ment, : 
s¢ Qnly, Of the Small Por. 
*<<'The small pox had raged for some years when I begun 
to collect my bills [in 1685] and in y* 1* of my collection it 
seemed to be in the last of its fury, sinking from 871 y* very 
next year to 353; and by comparing of the 1* 6 years together, 
amidie standard may be collected of 472 for each year ; but this 
last year y° malignity of it seems to be well nigh quite extinct, 
not above 47 dying of it in the whole year, and indeed y* 
whole mortality decreas’t neer a 6" part of w*‘ it had been y° 
year before; tho y° feavor (of w we shall say more presently) 
kept its usuall pitch, and y° bloody flux and looseness of w" 
there has been a great silence in former bills, now above treble 
of what they had been before ;—an argument that the morta- 
lity was not lessened, but the number of inhabitants. 
<<< 3ry, Of the Feavor. 
‘¢«’Tis observable yt upon the abating of the small pox y* 
there came amoungstus an anamalous feavor, w™ Dublin seldom 
wants, unless in those years when a contagious air impregnates. 
all inflamed bloods with a variolous ferment. ‘This makes me 
be of opinion yta medium for those 7 years being 661 may 
pass for a generall standard for feavors as long as the place 
shall continue in its present populousness. I find y* in y* year 
1688 y° dispeopling of y® towne appeared in y* decrease of y* 
feavor, small pox, and y* whole mortality in generall which 
was sufficiently repaired by y* mortality of the following year, 
