| Week ending | Convulsions | Griping in the guts | All causes | ||||
| July | 10 | 84 | 28 | 353 | |||
| 17 | 94 | 35 | 388 | ||||
| 24 | 90 | 80 | 491 | ||||
| 31 | 108 | 86 | 510 | ||||
| Aug. | 7 | 122 | 119 | 557 | |||
| 14 | 141 | 136 | 630 | ||||
| 21 | 130 | 113 | 518 | ||||
| 28 | 120 | 90 | 483 | ||||
| Sept. | 4 | 109 | 98 | 532 | |||
| 11 | 112 | 119 | 547 | ||||
| 18 | 90 | 102 | 474 | ||||
| 25 | 102 | 76 | 476 | ||||
| Oct. | 2 | 71 | 65 | 380 | |||
| 9 | 67 | 43 | 362 | ||||
Summer and Autumn of 1689
| Week ending | Convulsions | Griping in the guts | All causes | ||||
| July | 16 | 108 | 60 | 486 | |||
| 23 | 109 | 65 | 463 | ||||
| 30 | 121 | 69 | 504 | ||||
| Aug. | 6 | 147 | 102 | 576 | |||
| 13 | 121 | 130 | 631 | ||||
| 20 | 140 | 150 | 662 | ||||
| 27 | 150 | 190 | 726 | ||||
| Sept. | 3 | 150 | 170 | 733 | |||
| 10 | 108 | 156 | 693 | ||||
| 17 | 110 | 117 | 630 | ||||
| 24 | 95 | 90 | 558 | ||||
| Oct. | 1 | 104 | 89 | 540 | |||
| 9 | 76 | 78 | 486 | ||||
The following table from the annual bills will serve to show the summers most fatal to infants in London, and at the same time the gradual usurpation of the place of “griping in the guts” by “convulsions.”
Annual deaths from Infantile Diarrhoea, etc., in London.
| Griping in the guts | Convulsions | |||
| 1667 | 2108 | 1210 | ||
| 1668 | 2415 | 1417 | ||
| 1669 | 4385 | 1730 | ||
| 1670 | 3690 | 1695 | ||
| 1671 | 2537 | 1650 | ||
| 1672 | 2645 | 1965 | ||
| 1673 | 2624 | 1761 | ||
| 1674 | 1777 | 2256 | ||
| 1675 | 3231 | 1961 | ||
| 1676 | 2083 | 2363 | ||
| 1677 | 2602 | 2357 | ||
| 1678 | 3150 | 2525 | ||
| 1679 | 2996 | 2837 | ||
| 1680 | 3271 | 3055 | ||
| 1681 | 2827 | 3270 | ||
| 1682 | 2631 | 3404 | ||
| 1683 | 2438 | 3235 | ||
| 1684 | 2981 | 3772 | ||
| 1685 | 2203 | 3420 | ||
| 1686 | 2605 | 3731 | ||
| 1687 | 2542 | 3967 | ||
| 1688 | 2393 | 4438 | ||
| 1689 | 2804 | 4452 | ||
| 1690 | 2269 | 3830 | ||
| 1691 | 2511 | 4132 | ||
| 1692 | 1756 | 3942 | ||
| 1693 | 1871 | 4218 | ||
| 1694 | 1443 | 5024 | ||
| 1695 | 1115 | 4496 | ||
| 1696 | 1187 | 4480 | ||
| 1697 | 1136 | 4944 | ||
| 1698 | 1165 | 4480 | ||
| 1699 | 1225 | 4513 | ||
| 1700 | 1004 | 4631 | ||
| 1701 | 1136 | 5532 | ||
| 1702 | 1189 | 5639 | ||
| 1703 | 985 | 5493 | ||
| 1704 | 1134 | 5987 | ||
| 1705 | 1021 | 6248 | ||
| 1706 | 948 | 5961 | ||
| 1707 | 883 | 5948 | ||
| 1708 | 768 | 5902 | ||
| 1709 | 812 | 5892 | ||
| 1710 | 707 | 6046 | ||
| 1711 | 614 | 5516 | ||
| 1712 | 575 | 6156 | ||
| 1713 | 581 | 5779 | ||
| 1714 | 670 | 7161 | ||
| 1715 | 589 | 6818 | ||
| 1716 | 709 | 7114 | ||
| 1717 | 653 | 7147 | ||
| 1718 | 801 | 8055 | ||
| 1719 | 826 | 7690 | ||
| 1720 | 731 | 6787 |
Summer Diarrhoea of Infants, 18th century.
The first series of unhealthy summers in the 18th century is from 1717 to 1729 (the summer of 1715 having had also high “convulsions”). In the week ending 17th September, 1717, the article of “convulsions” rises to 187, while that of griping in the guts is only 13, the deaths from all causes being 522. For the next two years, the highest mortalities of the autumn were these:
London Weekly Mortalities.