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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. 
soe Qrly, Of the Small Pox. 
‘*<¢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, siking 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. 
see 3rly, Of the Feavor. 
«¢«’Tis observable yt upon the abating of the small pox y‘ 
there came amoungst us 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 y'a 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, 
