London Mortalities from Fever, &c.
| Year | Fevers | Spotted fevers | Smallpox | All causes | ||||
| 1710 | 4397 | 343 | 3138 | 24620 | ||||
| 1714 | 4631 | 150 | 2810 | 26569 | ||||
| 1718 | 3475 | 132 | 1884 | 26523 | ||||
| 1719 | 3803 | 124 | 3229 | 28347 | ||||
| 1720 | 3910 | 46 | 1442 | 25454 | ||||
| 1721 | 3331 | 84 | 2375 | 26142 | ||||
| 1722 | 3088 | 22 | 2167 | 25750 | ||||
| 1723 | 3321 | 51 | 3271 | 29197 | ||||
| 1724 | 3262 | 84 | 1227 | 25952 | ||||
| 1725 | 3277 | 59 | 3188 | 25523 | ||||
| 1726 | 4666 | 84 | 1569 | 29647 | ||||
| 1727 | 4728 | 102 | 2379 | 28418 | ||||
| 1728 | 4716 | 94 | 2105 | 27810 | ||||
| 1729 | 5235 | [The entry | 2849 | 29722 | ||||
| 1730 | 4011 | ends.] | 1914 | 26761 | ||||
| 1731 | 3225 | 2640 | 25262 | |||||
| 1732 | 2939 | 1197 | 23358 | |||||
| 1733 | 3831 | 1370 | 29233 | |||||
| 1734 | 3116 | 2688 | 26062 | |||||
| 1735 | 2544 | 1594 | 23538 | |||||
| 1736 | 3361 | 3014 | 27581 | |||||
| 1737 | 4580 | 2084 | 27823 | |||||
| 1738 | 3890 | 1590 | 25825 | |||||
| 1739 | 3334 | 1690 | 25432 | |||||
| 1740 | 4003 | 2725 | 30811 |
In country parishes, according to Short’s abstracts of registers, there was no unusual sickness in 1718 and 1719. But in market towns the mortality rose greatly in 1719, which had an excessively hot summer; and that was the year when the synochus or typhus described by Wintringham reached its worst at York. The mortality kept high for several years after 1719.
Market Towns.
| Year | Registers examined | Registers with excess of deaths | Deaths in same | Births in same | ||||
| 1716 | 30 | 8 | 1060 | 845 | ||||
| 1717 | 30 | 9 | 1485 | 1290 | ||||
| 1718 | 30 | 3 | 249 | 169 | ||||
| 1719 | 30 | 6 | 1737 | 1320 | ||||
| 1720 | 30 | 10 | 2186 | 1461 | ||||
| 1721 | 33 | 9 | 1294 | 952 | ||||
| 1722 | 33 | 11 | 1664 | 1345 | ||||
| 1723 | 33 | 14 | 2532 | 2176 |
The high mortalities in 1721-23 were mostly from smallpox, exact figures of many of the epidemics in Yorkshire and elsewhere being given in the chapter on that disease. The country parishes shared in its prevalence:
Country Parishes.
| Year | Registers examined | Registers with excess of deaths | Deaths in same | Births in same | ||||
| 1721 | 174 | 35 | 793 | 586 | ||||
| 1722 | 175 | 35 | 1015 | 775 | ||||
| 1723 | 174 | 63 | 2021 | 1583 |