Another epidemic broke out in 1636, and the plague remained present in the background until 1648. The years 1649 to 1664 were plague free, and London’s last plague epidemic was in 1665. Only the severest bouts of plague caused significant flight from the city (Sutherland 1972, 299, 305 Charm Bracelet). Nevertheless, using the midpoints as references, the 45-year view shows that the 123-parish London area’s population steadily grew by as much as 28,000 every five years: a 6 to 8 percent increase, even throughout the Civil War. Then, from 1645 to 1650, the figure shows that the 123-parish area precipitously declined by 50,000 people. (Although the plague was endemic between 1638 and 1648, London was plague free in 1649 Sweetie Bracelet.) This decline would seem to be primarily caused by population movement. The decline was not for long, however. During the next five years, the data show London’s population far exceeding its 1638 population, total population growing by 87,000 people, indicating perhaps a higher birthrate and definitely a great influx of in-migration.
Physically, this is a huge flow of people back and forth in a short time frame, with more people moving out of London (mostly from its suburbs links of london sweetie bracelet) in just five years than the entire population of England’s second and third largest cities- Norwich and Bristol-combined. Deaths and departures would leave a large vacancy rate and loss of local income in their wake but little more, so such a shift is plausible. More incredible, in the next five years, 87,000 people- 37,000 more than the 50,000 who previouly left-supposedly moved to London links of london.
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