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at other times a loofenefs, and that both thefe excre- 
tions and alio his breath were remarkably offend ve. 
That at laft he was feized with convulfions, and hav- 
ing three fits in one day, he died in the laft of them. 
Mrs. Wilmot added, that her youngeft fon James, a 
boy of four years of age, was after the father’s de- 
ceafe feized with the fpotted fever of the fame kind 
with what had prevail d in the family, but that he 
recover’d ; and that her own mother Eleonore Meg- 
get, who did not live in the houfe, but came often, 
to fee and attend them, was alfo taken ill of a fever, 
but without fpots, and died about ten days after her 
husband.. She concluded with telling us, that the 
diftrefs of her family had been the greater, by her 
being deprived of all aftiftance from their neighbours,, 
who having thus feen the whole family, one after 
another, feized with this fever, were as much afraid, 
to come near them, as if they had been infedted with 
the plague. 
This is all the account I believed neceftary to be 
laid before the Society ; fince a more particular hi- 
ft^ry of it, with regard to its fymptoms, nature and 
cure, would have been but a repetition of what 1 
had already publilhed, concerning the malignant fe- 
ver of the hofpital, from which thefe cafes are in no- 
thing different, 
It will be proper to add, that, befides thefe fix 
perlons, that were taken ill by working in Newgate, 
and whom I faw, there was another, called Ruft, as 
Mr. Stibbs has lately informed me, but whom I never 
vifited. So that, befides Wilmot’s whole family, and 
" Sewel’s wife, who received the contagion at fecond- 
' hand, 
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