In the next week there was a further decrease of six hundred; in the next after that of six hundred; and so on till the end of October, when, the cold weather setting in, the amount was reduced to nearly one thousand.
At first, when the distemper began to lose somewhat of its malignancy, a few scared individuals appeared in the streets, but carefully shunned each other.

In a few days, however, considerable numbers joined them, and for the first time for nearly three months there was something like life abroad.

It is astonishing how soon hope and confidence are revived.
Now that it could no longer be doubted that the plague was on the decline, it seemed as if a miracle had been performed in favour of the city.

Houses were opened--shopkeepers resumed their business--and it was a marvel to every one that so many persons were left alive.

Dejection and despair of the darkest kind were succeeded by frenzied delight, and no bound was put to the public satisfaction.