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._ Registers Registers with Deaths Births Year examined excess of deaths in same in same 1721 174 35 793 586 1722 175 35 1015 775 1723 174 63 2021 1583 Besides smallpox, diarrhoeas and dysenteries in the autumn are given by Wintringham as the reigning maladies, fever not being mentioned. The Epidemic Fevers of 1726-29: evidence of Relapsing Fever. The four years 1726-29 were a great fever-period in London, the deaths having been as follows: Year Fever deaths All deaths 1726 4666 29,647 1727 4728 28,418 1728 4716 27,810 1729 5335 29,722 In the last of those years the entry in the annual bills becomes “fever, malignant fever, spotted fever and purples.” The following are the weekly maxima of fever deaths and deaths from all causes during the four years, 1726-29; in nearly all the weeks the deaths from “convulsions” (generic name for most of the maladies of infants) contribute from a fourth to a third, or even more, of the whole mortality.