The Black Death Vs The Great Plague


	The Black Death Vs The Great Plague
	Similarities Causes - punishment from God; astrology; miasma Quarantine - during the Black Death they tried to prevent movement by doing 40 days quarantine when someone entered a new area. In the Great Plague they would mark red crosses on doors to show where people had the illness and they were quarantined for 28 days Preventative methods and treatment included prayer, fasting and going on pilgrimage (religious) as well as trying to ward off miasma Best way to avoid the plague was to run away In both times, people focused on preventing the disease because treating it seemed to be ineffective	Differences In the Great Plague there were some ideas about the spread of disease through contact, however the miasma theory was much more popular In the Great Plague there were more authoritative actions in response to the plague - eg the king issued a list of actions to try to stop the spread and streets were cleaned, as well as public gatherings cancelled
	Overall comparison

Causes - punishment from God; astrology; miasma
Quarantine - during the Black Death they tried to prevent movement by doing 40 days quarantine when someone entered a new area. In the Great Plague they would mark red crosses on doors to show where people had the illness and they were quarantined for 28 days
Preventative methods and treatment included prayer, fasting and going on pilgrimage (religious) as well as trying to ward off miasma
Best way to avoid the plague was to run away
In both times, people focused on preventing the disease because treating it seemed to be ineffective

In the Great Plague there were some ideas about the spread of disease through contact, however the miasma theory was much more popular
In the Great Plague there were more authoritative actions in response to the plague - eg the king issued a list of actions to try to stop the spread and streets were cleaned, as well as public gatherings cancelled