Week Fever All ending deaths deaths 1726 Jan. 18 71 633 March 15 81 678 May 31 103 611 June 7 106 607 Aug. 30 102 711 Sept. 6 116 680 13 109 643 20 109 648 1727 Aug. 8 103 577 15 123 698 22 132 730 29 130 789 Sept. 5 150 764 12 134 795 19 165 798 26 163 715 Oct. 3 150 684 1728 Feb. 6 112 748 13 131 889 20 121 850 27 145 927 March 5 93 733 Aug. 27 138 525 Sept. 3 131 562 Dec. 10 122 734 1729 Sept. 9 109 676 Nov. 4 213 908[104] 11 267 993[104] 18 166 783 Dec. 9 132 779 These are high mortalities, whatever were the types of fever that caused them. That the old pestilential fever of London was one of them we need have no doubt. Dr John Arbuthnot, writing two or three years after, said, “I believe one may safely affirm that there is hardly any year in which there are not in London fevers with buboes and carbuncles [the distinctive pestilential marks]; and that there are many petechial or spotted fevers is certain[105].”