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Poifon got ftrength, and confequently that the Difeafe 
was harder to remedy. 
Thus the Diftemper grew predominant, and by the . 
end of Auguft was fpread almoft over the whole To wn. 
All pofiible Care was taken to fupply the Poor (which 
in this Place are very numerous) with Neceflaries both 
of Food and Phyfick ; to have the Streets and Dwelling- 
Houfeskept glean and neat 5 the Communication of the 
Sick with the Sound as much as poffiblc prevented 5 and 
the Dead buried timely, and in the Place appointed for 
them 5 and all this by the Authority and Direction of 
certain Perfons the Magiftrates had appointed thereto, • 
called for that Reafon, P rovifors of Health. 
Befides, the Pejlhoufes were open’d, and well provided 
with^all manner of $£ceila/ies, ' ag a ifo with Overfeers 
and Sejyaftfs . to the defraying the Charges of which 
conficlerable Sums of Money were colle&ed; Many Per- 
fons of Condition hired particular Houfes for their Ser- 
vants $ and others made up convenient Appartments in 
their Gardens, and procured Servants and Nurfes to at- 
tend them, that in cafe of Infection they might there be 
taken Care of. The Peft- Waggons and Chairs went 
from early in the Morning till late at Night 5 the for- 
mer to carry away the Dead to be buried, the other to 
convey the Sick to the HofpitaU. Befides the ordinary 
Churchyards, there were others made without the Walls 
of the Town. In (hort, every thing was ordered with 
wonderful Convenience, and fo well and carefully look’d 
after, 1 that without it the Infe&ion would have deftroy- 
ed a much larger Number of People. And tho* this is 
a very Populous Town, yet during the Contagion, we 
did not lofe near fo many as was malicioufly reported, 
viz,. Forty thoufand Perfons ^ the Falfity of which Ac- 
count appears plainly from the Bills of Mortality, to- 
gether with the Number of Chriflnings and Marriages 
shat were in this Year, as they were carefully taken and 
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