[ 395 ]
Vices, and other Extravagances, our Lascivious ness, Sensuality, and, in a Word, our Impudence, and with all these our Distempers: These enrich the Doctors, these call the Surgeons and Apothecaries about us, like the Crows about the Carcase; and they Bombard us with the Gallipots and Glasses, as the Algerines assault a Ship with Carcases and Stinking Pots.
If the Numbers of People are encreas'd about London, that may be something, though tis begging the Question most egregiously to say so, as we do by Lump, that this is the only encrease of the Mortality. Some suggest such an Encrease as amounts to a third Part of the whole; and others will go so far as to tell us they are doubled; and this they gather (as they say) not from the excessive Numbers of Buildings only, but from the Throngs of People which are to be seen in the Streets upon all publick Occasions. I will readily grant both these, particularly, that there are great Numbers of new Buildings, Streets and Squares added to the Town, and in all the extreme Parts of it, indeed an innumerable Number, such as no City in the World can show the like, as at St. Giles's, Tyburn-Road, Ormond-Street, Hockley, Finsbury, Spittle-Fields, Wapping, Rotherhith, &c. Nor is this all, but I allow that there is also a prodigious Encrease in the Villages adjacent to London, which, as they say, and in that indeed they say true, are not only doubled, but some of them encreased to several Times as many People as formerly, such as at the new Docks near Deptford, and at the Town of Deptford; also at Greenwich, Clapham, Camberwell, Chelsea, Kensington, Hampstead, Newington, Tottenham, Edmonton, Endfield, Bromley, Stratford, West Ham,Wanstead,
