Responses to the Great Plague 1665-1666
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- Responses to the Great Plague of 1665
- Treatments
- Little effectiveness
- Chickens tail on buboes
- Cutting a live pigeon in half and place under buboes
- Leeches (Bloodletting)
- Sponge in vinegar
- Candle smoke
- Theory of transference
- Prevention
- Action of the Government
- Mass graves for the dead (Plague pits)
- 40 Days of quarantine
- Purging of cats and dogs
- Carried fleas
- Made situation worse - Less predators
- Rich exiting the country (Before June 1665)
- Travel restrictions by other villages
- Eyam
- Plague carried through cloths from merchant
- William Mompesson
- Isolation and quarantine of the village
- Isolation and quarantine of the village
- William Mompesson
- All food from outside a boundary
- Natural immunities to plage contracted
- Derby
- Plague carried through cloths from merchant
- Contamination of bodies
- Only buried before sunrise or after sunset
- 6 feet under
- 6 feet under
- Only buried before sunrise or after sunset
- Lord Mayor of London
- Sir William Lawrence
- Check each house for people with the Great Plague
- 40 Days quarantine for having the plague
- Red Cross
- Lord, have mercy on us
- Watchmen
- People broke through walls
- 40 Days quarantine for having the plague
- Background
- ~65,000 died (might be up to 100,000)
- Records lost in Great Fire of London
- Government were involved
- Bubonic, pneumonic and septicemic
- Samuel Pepys
- 'so many sick people in the streets, full of sores'
- Samuel Pepys
- Began in Spring
- Nothing done until it spread to richer areas of London in Summer
- Came back periodically between the 15th and 16th centuries
- 1000 deaths per week
- ~65,000 died (might be up to 100,000)
- Causes
- Four Humours imbalane
- Miasma
- God
- Cats and Dogs
- Contageous
- Treatments
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