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Cumulative number of deaths (second column) by the week (first column) from August 1665 to October 1665 during the Great Plague of London. Data taken from page 144 of "A Handbook of Small Data Sets" by D.J. Hand, F. Daly, A.D. Lunn, K.J. McConway and E. Ostrowski, Chapman and Hall, 1994.

1st col	2nd col
0	3880
1	8117
2	14219
3	21207
4	27751
5	34916
6	40449
7	45378
8	49705