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2300 Souls, there died a great many, of which there 
was no Notice taken. 
Almoft the very fame happened two Years before at 
Dantzick $ where, before the Plague broke out, there 
died Weekly from 45 to 50 ^ but theNumber of the Dead 
sncreafed by degrees to the beginning of September $ fo 
that in the firft Week of that Month there died 2205 
Souls, in the fecond Week 2070, and in the third 
207 5. After which the Mortality decreafed to the End 
of the Year. 
It is obfervable, I. That there were fome Houfes 
which efcaped the Infe&ion 5 but that there were few 
where it did not carry off more than one or two Per- 
fons$ and that there were many in which it did not 
leave a Soul alive. 
II. That generally fpeaking, this Diftemper was mod 
fatal to the meaner fort of People ^ there fcarce dying 
any Perfon of Note ^ but on the contrary a great num- 
ber of the Poor. Which may be attributed to feveral 
Caufes : . . 
The firft, and moft general of which, is their nafty 
manner of Living. The fecond is, that this fort of 
People live very clofe together, and as it were heaped 
one upon another 5 fo that fomerimes there are four 
Families in one Room. The third is, the foolifti Curi- 
ofity they have of feeing the Dead Bodies. And fourth- 
ly a great many of them are fo biggotted to the Turkijh 
Notion of Predeftination, that they fay, if it pleafes 
God that I (hould die of this Difeafe, I (hall not efcape 
it j and if it be hts-pleafure that l (hall live, I can’t 
die : And upon this Notion they go abroad every 
where, and fo catch the Infeftion. There are fome of 
’em alfo, which make no fcruple of lying in the fame 
Beds, where others have dy’d. 
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