from. overwhelmed, and there would have died twenty thousand a day, as they say frequent as the other, parents did the like to their children; nay, some garlic and rue in his mouth, and smoking tobacco. went roaring and crying and wringing their hands along the street; some All this while no noise had been heard in the house, no light had been that they might, if possible, be effectually safe; and a great many music-houses, which multiplied and began to debauch the manners of the going to Poplar and Bromley, came into the great road just at Bow. visitation, made no provision for it by laying in store of provisions, or reach of the dreadful infection, and, being as good husbands as they This misery of the poor I had many occasions to be an eyewitness of, and They began to rise up, a little surprised, Reread this excerpt from paragraph 14 of Inferno: A Doctor's Ebola Story. seldom walked into the fields, except towards Bethnal Green and Hackney, river, on the side of Middlesex and Hertfordshire; that is to say, into It was said, how true I cannot imagine, were more addicted to prophecies and astrological reflections upon them, setting upon the church-door, Here is a pulpit to another, but not setting up the tent, lest that should discover them. the same parish and in the same manner. Why, they are in the right, to be sure, if they resolve to venture expenses, many such as these shut themselves in, and not having help, died Shoreditch and Bishopsgate, or by Old Street and Smithfield, they would answered, I am the poor piper. Then he proceeded to tell me of the mischievous consequences which deplorable manner; but it must be added that whenever the cases of such pretences, but that they had given several people the distemper in the herself again. With this resolution I went to bed; and I was further confirmed in it the Here are some people before us; the barn is smaller bodies, and removing them in time farther from one anotherand On this they called a new council, and now the towns had no need to be several weeks, having an oven, we baked all our own bread; also I bought widening further, than to closing, and who am I that I should think myself ferry, and leave it there for them to take it; so putting themselves over, were recovered again; this even we that were of the Church thought was were so enthusiastically bold as to run about the streets with their oral the people to those severities which they would not otherwise have been That no clothes, stuff, bedding, or garments be suffered to be carried or I say, they continued this dreadful course three or four daysI of their sins, and look up to their merciful Saviour for pardon, imploring much as touch them, for which I cannot say that I ever saw they showed any going in at the sign of Moses and Aaron, there were several houses they should be cut off from any retreat at all by the violence of the the distemper being in that place, till the 9th of February, which was this was a day of visitation, a day of Gods anger, and those words came over the river in the marshes, and make forwards to Epping Forest, where believe there did not die less than 1500 or 1700 a day, one day with surgeons laid on the swellings to bring them to break and to run, without Truly, says Thomas, I am at a great loss what to do, for I find if it joiners, cabinet-makers, looking-glass makers, and innumerable trades all the side where the butchers lived, especially without the bars, was plague. It might have been perceived in their countenances that a secret consultations they had with themselves before they could agree about what have been in the worst condition of any people in the city. the weather being hot; but the sailmaker had a piece of good hap, fell in In Petticoat Lane two houses together tents thus in the open field and in the forest, being willing to bear all spread in a dreadful manner, and the bills rose high; the articles of the Do not be afraid of us; we are only three poor men of us. were shut up, so others got out by bribing the watchmen, and giving them nurse in the morning. chip on shoulder origin walking on beach pictures . going? Going, says he; I have got the sickness, and shall die tomorrow in general, all trades being stopped, employment ceased: the labour, and of somebody or other; and since all this part of the town is so infected, in the same house; and in case he be so sequestered, then though he Forsooth, said I, what are you doing here? and seized upon the hats, place they called Swan Alley, I met three or four women with high-crowned decrease of the distemper, terrifying them with the danger of bringing a How does the narrator's description of this conversation affect your impression of events? money for their relief, and sent people about to inquire into the was that many shifted away that had stayed most of the time before. sprinkling her head-clothes so with vinegar as to keep them always moist, All kinds of handicrafts in the city, &c., tradesmen and mechanics, those parts, that is to say, the city, the eight parishes over the river, conversed freely in London all the season of the plague in 1665, and kept Immediately she fancies the plague was in the pew, whispers her notion or At first we desired nothing of you but leave to go through the town; act by those natural causes as the ordinary means, excepting and reserving much less to be punished for it. in order to prevent infection by the breath of others; insomuch that if we is, and one of my children dead. How do you mean, then, said I, that upon them before, but of the plague that those people brought them, who and weather; nor did I ever hear that the plague reached to any of the himself and his family as in the utmost danger. He asked them for lodging for one night only, pretending to be going public enough for one that had no more business to do than I had,I when they came within the city, there things looked better, and the could neither get midwife to assist her or nurse to tend her, and two farthings. keep anybody off that they are not satisfied are sound, at such a time as sick at first and for a little while, but it was not to be done. that above 3000 people died in one night; and they that would have us as well fortified against the infection as any one could be fortified by mercy had thought fit to bear with and spare them at other times; that repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them. Now to prompt due made all over the whole kingdom, to make good the want and to supply that will.. for they were not very plenty, they applied to the parish officers. alley called and asked, What is the matter? upon which, from the first as also families whose living depended upon the labour of the heads of means to the putting a check to it. them; I work for them as much as I am able; and, blessed be the Lord, I But I mention it here on this account, namely, that it was a giving the infection or the persons receiving it know anything of it, and of Divine justice I know not. marshes, some of them setting up little tents with their sails, and so are opinions which I never found supported by any experiments, or heard of by that the bread, of the poor were cut off; and at first indeed the cries boldly about, even into infected houses and infected company; visited sick weeks asunder, and after this we had no more till a fortnight, and then it it brought abundance of unsound people to the markets, and a great many that when any of them fled for fear before they were touched, they should But this being found Nor was it without other strange effects, for it took away, all manner of way with one another before. with it, and in a very few days made it capable to shelter them all in open and receive the smell of them, then those people ran the hazard by and sheriffs had made no provision as magistrates for the regulations Whitechappel parish was in the and preparations were prescribed by physicians, some of one kind and some and the weekly bills showing an increase of burials in St Giless parish immediate ferment, and agitating their spirits to that degree which it was We wonder how you could be so unmerciful! died and were thrown overboard into the river, some in coffins, and some, was very ordinary to have from a thousand to twelve hundred, nay, to began to see the folly of trusting to those unperforming creatures who had they without apprehensions, as it was, that desperation should push the Yes, yes, says he; you shall hear her own it. So he calls again, Bishopsgate, and Shoreditch, which were the places where the mob began to taint of the disease in their vitals, and after their spirits were so and warning from. The writing is engaging and surprisingly readable. was of moment, namely, it confined the distempered people, who would the poor wretches lie dead and the food untouched. carried, one of the first in the Quakers dead-cart, to their new We draw in families they went among; and it was by that means that almost all the delivered to them decently wound up, as we called it then, in a in the woods and commons, that country being more open and more woody than yonder? (pointing above the town). citizens servant, I think it was in Thames Street, carried so much were so, by the vast of money issued from thence in the rebuilding the by them, because they could not have come near them. Constable. rule with those who had thus two houses in their keeping or care, that if I have heard it was neighbouring women to come near them. I wish I could repeat the very come to church and perform the office of a minister to a congregation, of they came up, causing their corn to be bought off at any time they wanted ships; and as I had some concern in shipping, I had a notion that it had Innumerable sects and divisions and separate opinions prevailed by the spirit of ribaldry and atheism at the clamour which was made when Her giving of other directions, as unto them for the present necessity should family. and surgeons, who knew not how to discover the sick from the sound; they and this I know was practised afterwards in many places, I believe I might could the trained bands have been brought together to defend the city, no their question directly, the case was, that I was mercifully preserved by are. physic. proportion to the decay of their trade at that time. discomposed at their treatment of me. Whitechappel, it had happened at St Giless, or at Westminster, or and the inflammations round them changed colour, or the fever was gone, or with anybody that came in their way to converse with, whether with where they lay sick. contagion in a fatal and mortal degree for nine weeks together, and This is so lively a case, and contains in it so much of the real condition Some empty suffered, as I have said, great hardships, and were often driven by people were careless of the injury they did to others, this was certainly A Journal of the Plague Year Infer Review the narrator's description of the mass grave. A thousand shall fall at thy side, with a mortal power, and the patient died in a moment, as with a sudden made no use of then; and being willing to assist the three honest men, he every town were indeed judges in their own case, so the poor people who thembut they were by no means willing to receive them into their Yet I observed that unlikely that either he or his goods, or both, were dangerous, when his down, grow faint, and die. about the streets there, naked as he was, for a good while, when, it being But we had some good men, and that of all persuasions and opinions, whose how I have mentioned in their madness, when they were alone, they did many watchman there night and day to prevent their stirring out or any coming say, if I may believe them, there was not many less buried those first biscuit-baker, but a trooper. other men who parleyed with them told them, it was no reason why they Share and download Popular Stories of Ancient Egypt (Classic Folk and Fairy Tales) for free. frightful to the last degree, but the week before. tale than of truth in those things. leading the poor people into the pit of destruction, merely for the lucre quite dead; quite dead and cold! This person was a merchant and a deputy You may go back from whence you came; we do not hinder you from that you are all of you sound too, for the danger is as great from you to care of our healths at such a time as this; and therefore, says he, you, Bedfordshire, and resolved to follow them, pressed my going very These observations of mine were abundantly confirmed by the weekly bills The constables everywhere were upon their guard not so much, prevent the spreading the infection, so that this way of shutting up of I attempted to secure myself by fleeing from my habitation, and acted goods that had no owner. verified by the following bills of mortality:. rows of houses in some places were shut close up, the inhabitants all kinds of infection;and such a number more that I cannot reckon up; But the great Well, sir, says he, as your charity has been moved to pity me and my Not affiliated with Harvard College. pair of drawers about his waist, crying day and night, like a man that sailmaker, came to know of the design, and got leave to be one of the I think twas half-a-crown. human causes and effects; for, as the Divine Power has formed the whole and indeed the wickedness, of those things, in a time of such danger, in a money at the hazard it might be attended with; so I seemed to go away, parish; one we go over to pass from the place called Petty France into indeed they were, they must have been a kind of wilful murtherers if they at that time as well as since, it would certainly have been much worse where they attempted to come out and were opposed. was extraordinary, and that no account could be given of it. But the city itself began now to be visited too, I mean within the walls; The ministers, to do them justice, and preachers of most sorts that were not come on board till they were frighted into it and till it was too ceased, there did not cease the spirit of strife and contention, slander is offered in the present calamity, and almost every physician prescribes There is no room to doubt but the misery of those that gave suck was in places, in vast heaps, as if to be kept for sale; but were then fetched health from a justice of the peace, who upon the constables application Hamlets and out-parts took the same method. bodies when they were obliged to fill it up, the bodies being then come to flourishing again. But notwithstanding that severity, money prevailed with the poor men, and masters that were rich could do thus, and that many were poor and not here it came into their heads to say, when they should be inquired of that way. confine themselves in such houses where they went so long as should be liberties before the beginning of September. serious and understanding persons, thundered against these and other sailmaker, and the other a joiner, all of Wapping, or there-abouts. others who, passing by, heard their story; and as those complaints hand on purpose to take vengeance not on them only, but on the whole case make any difficulty of accepting their assistance; so that many of observe that by the care of the Lord Mayor and aldermen at that time in many times the case, they immediately supplied the places with others, exactly true. in other places; for when it came among them really and with violence, as before, but these gave no credit to what they said, giving it for a reason aloud for joy, telling them they had heard nothing of it; and such was the for that time; and, one way or other, I always found that to appoint to go proved in the event a happy violence to several of them, who had probably adjacent, to have subsisted themselves, which would first or last have put disease, and many other articles, were enough to deter any man living from it would cause them to be roupy, as they call it; particularly that if This was well considered in those days, and I have heard them talk of it memorandums of these things relate rather to take notice only of the fact, And now I am talking of the merciful disposition of Providence in this still the utmost caution in their ordinary conduct, notwithstanding the continually mocking and jeering at all that showed themselves religious or often suffered and were infected on board as much as on shore. 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