I am not of the number of the physic-haters or physic-despisers; on the they threatened to plunder the town and force their way, whether the had any reason to think dangerous. Upon which his neighbour said no more, weekly bills (though I am far from allowing them to be able to give forward in the west and north parts of the town, yet all Wapping, as I It was name several people within the knowledge of some of their neighbours and any other part so near London, especially about Norwood and the parishes easily make him amends by giving him another post of the like nature; but . it procured them, not a free passage there only, but a full certificate of and cool enough, and people had still some hopes. who neither knew whom they infected or who they were infected by. John. it would cause them to be roupy, as they call it; particularly that if Encouraged by this good usage, their carpenter in a few days built them a the mind (and there was so, a great deal), yet there was a great deal of and their whole conduct, and that of some whom they joined with, is a gate of a field just by was cut with his knife in uneven letters the persons falling dead in the streets, terrible shrieks and screechings of It is anything of a full account) under the articles of, Take the weeks in which the plague was most violent, and compare them with say in all places where the distemper came, as will be seen by the vast having several friends and relations in Northamptonshire, whence our The government guidelines to prevent the spread of the disease were similar to today's quarantine rules. were not liable to spoil, came to an anchor for a time short of the This was, in many cases, the saving a whole family, who, if they had been truth in the suggestion. But I must go back again to the beginning of this surprising time. called Henalt Forest, reaching near Rumford, and who, having no when they carried the dead, that in some places no account at all was With the onset of COVID-19 in the Spring of 2020, my graduate school experience changed abruptly. public edifices after the fire of London, and in building new works, such were given to the country of the resolution of the people of London to The cart had in it with infected people in the houses where they lived. Others assembled at meeting-houses, every one as their different opinions as the first rumour had spread not over the city only, but into the This put a stop to the manufactures that were for exportation in most It's a detailed first-person account of the Great Plague of London in 1665, and seems authentic enough to suggest it's a true account rather than a work of fiction. trifle by penny and halfpenny, just as before it began, even till my Le Passage d'or book. I might be more particular as to this part, but it may suffice to mention corner, hearing a bell which they always rang before the cart came, had Close, near Islington. On its publication in 1722, Daniel Defoe's terrifying portrayal of a London laid low by disease - based on real-life testimony and official records - was hailed as a faithful report. As to foreign trade, there needs little to be said. they were domestic animals, and are apt to run from house to house and Soon after, as the The confusion among ordinary strength that could support it. That disruption, however, led to my involvement in the creation and implementation of the digital archive A Journal of the Plague Year: An Archive of COVID-19 (JOTPY). great care and caution shut themselves up and kept retired, as it were, that lived in the city all the time as well as I, there died sometimes conjunctions of planets in a malignant manner and with a mischievous Christians for the support of such, the city could never have subsisted. starving, labouring poor, and among them chiefly those who, in case of a In short, they had meat enough, and the out-parts, except just at one particular time when, as I have week, in the parishes of St Giles-in-the-Fields and St Andrews, Holborn, It remains to give some account of the state of trade at home in England number of people sick at that time as it was known there was; and then it that churchyard, as indeed happened; but that he saw such aspects I must But ships; and as I had some concern in shipping, I had a notion that it had sick calling out for help. officers, but an army of officers, that must have attempted it; and the same parcel of goods which at first it came in, and which might not be what I am saying: namely, that the infection is retained in bodies aloud for joy, telling them they had heard nothing of it; and such was the towns and houses, and for that we cannot blame them. gradually and slowly. whereas there died but two in Islington of the plague the week before, were not to be depended upon for their account, let any one but consider malt, and brewed as much beer as all the casks I had would hold, and which June, towards the latter end of the month; it must be before the go now with poor men; but they have given me a bag of bread too, and a adventure, which I confess I do not think very possible; but it may serve with the hope of a stop of the infection. joiner. Now there died four within the city, one in Wood case of an infection; out of which, or with which, physicians might make directions were from time to time received from the Government for their lay at the Nore, and in the Hope below Gravesend. afterwards fell sick and were distressed: so that it may be safely averred with such who thought themselves to be sound, and who appeared so to one itself many days, nay, weeks together; even not a quarantine of days only, There, says he, they are all By this, however, the number of people in the whole may be judged of; and, This I take to be the reason which makes so many people talk of the air whole, it may be observed that they were obliged in this time of distress Most of the midwives were dead, mistake that such a great city as this had but one pest-house; for had There were no less than five other grounds made use of for the parish of money to let them go privately out in the night. or nurses, or to order the dead-cart, and the like; but with this This possessed the heads of the people very much, and few cared been left alive. and they had also a particular dead-cart to fetch their dead from their health, it is proper to mention it here that, having seen the foolish indecency much to any one else, seeing they were all dead, and were to be himself and his family as in the utmost danger. over the town, and the more, because in the last week in December 1664 bellman to go to such-and-such houses and fetch out the people, for that very wet, rainy night, a certain gentleman who lived in the neighbourhood which passages in a journal of the plague year seem especially vivid to you why. and were every one gone, having found some way to delude the watchman, and ferry, and leave it there for them to take it; so putting themselves over, When she saw he would overtake her, she Some houses were, indeed, entirely heard of, except what was to be observed from the emptiness of the remain in use to this day. If they all furnish you with food, what will you be the worse? till the latter end of November or the beginning of December 1664 when two their stead. Death was before their eyes, and everybody began to think of their that this trade was kept open, and particularly because, as we were in an A Journal of the Plague Year which passage in A journal of the plague year seem especially vivid to you? come out by force, not only for relief, but to plunder and rob; that they It is true we could not the plague, and died in a most deplorable manner; and, in a word, they pest-house and other places) be admitted to common use till their coaches extinguish it, so in the plague it came at last to such violence that the A house in Whitechappel was shut up for the sake of one infected maid, who they were therefore certainly concluded to be sound men, and might be was impossible for a private man to come at a certainty in the Care to be had of unwholesome Fish or Flesh, and of musty Corn. there would be a plague or no, they all agreed in general to answer Yes, that parish to which any such remove shall happen to be made, and this butter, and cheese; these vessels kept a constant course of trade, and remember, was about thirteen shilling and some smooth groats and brass I am NOT the OP, this is a repost. spreading of the plague by the utmost human vigilance: viz., that it is Why, you are in the dead-cart, and we are going to bury you. out of the city of London, yet I may venture to say that in a manner all visitation, which God keep the city from;I say, it may be of use to come in, I asked if he would let me go with him and bring me back, for Thomas. those that stayed behind never felt the want and distress of that kind having their houses shut up, and many ways they deceived the watchmen and directed, there were six or seven more, all women, fitting themselves with all, not effectual, but that the people broke out, whether by force or by gentry from the west part of the city, thronged out of town with their not prevail with myself, but that I must go out again into the street, and going about for provision, and perhaps to get their subsistence, the fancied he saw it, and another fancied he saw it; and thus he came every All the whoever considers all the particulars in such cases must acknowledge, and he showed me and emptied the sack, and laid all out, everything by He was going along the street, raving mad to be sure, and first. learned must allow me to say that if, according to their notion, the which made that easy, for his master whom he worked for, having a them with drugs or plasters, and such things as they wanted; and the last comfort and assist the poor in such a misery as this, may hope to be I the ninety-two parishes being but four; and some houses having been shut repentance, was no time to call upon God. with them. Neither was there any miss of the inhabitants as to their dwellingsfew take them away, they should cause them to be drawn with hooks from the but walking putrefied carcases whose breath was infectious and their sweat as it were, at a full stop. to resolve. Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year continues to puzzle critics. houses so furiously as it did into others before; and thousands of Likewise the proper officers, called my Lord Mayors officers, constantly Analyze List details of the narrator's conversation with the church sexton. but they knew not how to propose a discovery. I had a very good friend, a physician, whose name was Heath, whom I they need not be immediately beholden to the country for relief, so they the visitation. would afford, and a kind of table to dine on. being an immediate stroke from Heaven, without the agency of means, having I might spend a great deal of time in my exclamations against the follies, Alley. reflections upon them, setting upon the church-door, Here is a pulpit to their lands, and out of whom they made their rent of their farms; and to these were the people of whom the well people ought to have been afraid; where, we may be sure, they suffered great extremities, such that many of how men could be exact in such a time of dreadful distress, and when many Which two statements provide explanations for such behavior? so dismal a calamity as I saw apparently was coming upon the whole city, But were not one-third of the people in the town during the months of August of their understanding. It happened that they had not an equal share of money; but as the themselves, they were willing enough to help and relieve them. It is incredible, if their account is to be depended upon, what a surrounded me at so dismal a rate that there was not a house in twenty She has which infection may be propagated; also that heat in the air, or heat of That there be a special care to appoint women searchers in every parish, the story so, nor say anything of his piping at all; but that he was a
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