Quote from : Natural And Political Observations Mentioned In A Following Index And Made Upon The Bills Of Mortality Book

Having always observed that most of them who constantly took in the weekly Bills of made little other use of them than to look at the foot how the burials increased or decreased, and among the what had happened, rare and extraordinary, in the week current; so as they might take the same as a to talk upon in the next company, and withal in the , how the increased or decreased, that the might judge of the necessity of their removal, and might conjecture what doings they were likely to have in their respective dealings.