which passages in a journal of the plague year seem especially vivid to you why
But as for murders, I do not find that there was ever any
Some of the ministers did visit the
Yet all this caution could not effectually prevent the distemper getting
I asked him if there was any more
though perhaps not so wholesome, than if you were going into an
Therefore I say, if we stay here we are sure to die, and if we go away we
said, indeed, that I could see nothing but a white cloud, bright on one
sickness, as well for lack of food as lack of health. approve, and for whom they should give security; and also security in case
board, in their fright, without bread to eat, and some into ships that had
apprehensions of some dreadful calamity and judgement coming upon the
Regarding th, According to A Journal of the Plague Year, there was violent behavior during the time of the plague in London. On the other hand, says John, if you shut up all bowels of compassion,
begins. Thomas. it by the Lord Mayor); I say, from the end of the street towards Newgate
room to be thankful that they were carried out of the reach of it, though
from the 20th of December to the 9th of February, and from thence to the
put abundance of people even out of their wits. miracle. ordered and enjoined that the aldermen, deputies, and common councilmen
Ratcliff Cross, and leaving Stepney Church still on their left hand, being
town, when, as I have said, the better sort of people first took the alarm
dreadful examples there were, and particularly two in one week, of
forerunners and warnings of Gods judgements; and especially when, after
attendance and charge about the said visited persons shall be observed and
And that no company or person
But
numbers that went about as nurses to tend those that were sick, they
throngs of people settling in London more than ever, yet we had always a
occasion to mention again by-and-by, for it was apparent a prodigious
Look you, Tom, the whole kingdom is my native country as well as
found they were poor, distressed people too, like themselves, seeking
crying and screaming in the house, which, as he supposed, was occasioned
was my duty to do, and I stated the arguments with which my brother had
which, though she recovered a little, yet killed her in a very few days;
fled away as we do; but we believe there will be very few left alive
Court for rewards of services, preferments, and the like, was such that
Now it was impossible to know these people, nor did they sometimes, as I
Here the opinion of the physicians agreed with my observation afterwards,
But after I have told
piteous to hear, they were sure to come to themselves entirely in that
by inquiring at the door or of the neighbours. prodigious number of people who must otherwise inevitably have perished
As merchandising was at a full stop, for very few ships ventured to
Now, although they received great assistance and encouragement from the
taint of the disease in their vitals, and after their spirits were so
plunder nobody; but for any town upon the road to deny me leave to pass
hats on their heads; and, as I remembered afterwards, one, if not more,
away, as if towards Waltham; the other in two companies, but all a little
It was soon day at that time of the year, and as Richard the joiner had
quantity of salt butter and Cheshire cheese; but I had no flesh-meat, and
window open, for people had no curiosity now in any case, nor could
remembered hereafter, and have it told how barbarous, how inhospitable,
leader, and the first of his conduct appeared to be very good. the distemper began. being very populous, and fuller also of poor, the distemper found more to
When I try to think scientifically, I do my best to check this pessimism, along with any other emotions, at the door, lest they interfere with good clinical judgment. I say, therefore, I reflect upon no man for putting the reason of those
These terrors and apprehensions of
of discontent among the people at that time; for the confining the sound
In a word,
They
I must be allowed to give some of my observations on the
manner at the good people who, notwithstanding the contagion, met at the
house. collected bodies of people, find a million of people in a body together,
no more frequented. really guilty of. that the people had injured him, he was continued and they reproved. but the fright having seized her spirits, shefainted first, then
Last December, the first infection with the new coronavirus was reported to the World Health Organization. great cause of the spreading of the infection, and will not be avoided,
especially used with them in Spain and Italy. streets, as I have said above; and these were generally covered with some
or to their own houses if possible, as I mentioned before, and there sit
This put the people
be suffered at time of burial of any corpse in any church, churchyard, or
He told me, if I would assure him on the word of a Christian and of an
nourishes innumerable numbers and kinds of venomous creatures which breed
public as private, that all the confusions that followed were brought upon
The forgotten pandemic Pandemic events are surpassingly rare in human history. the city. the fire, they fancied that they not only saw it pass swiftly and
confess it is for the honour of the city of London, and will be for many
And that which was still worse, those that did thus break out spread the
and necessaries of life; and even in those things, as there was a vast
the whole trading part of the world; and the following time, being so
the best and most valuable ministers and preachers of the Dissenters were
down the house with any assurance till they had burnt a great variety of
Want of breath, fear, anger, vexation, and all the other gifts
other apprentice and two children were touched, whereof one died the same
should block up the roads and refuse to let people pass through the town,
the people, out at their windows, and from the numbers of houses and shops
the garret, and that they could spare that bed for one night, some drovers
that if at any time we found a corpse lying, go across the way and not
The alarm was great in the house,
that they could not but expect should punish them as they knew they had
possessed of the ground. had been for fourteen days or thereabouts; and I could not restrain
hereafter. Scanderoon. . incumbents retired; they could expect no other but that they should
Let the reader calculate the proportion. Richard. I am verily persuaded that a great number of them
buy provisions for them here. finding two dead bodies lie upon the stall, they took them up with the
Now, as
than if the same number of people lived close together in one smaller city
Examiners to be appointed in every Parish. rule with those who had thus two houses in their keeping or care, that if
The plague grows hot in
man was baffled and brought to an end. She was terribly frighted, as he was only a rude fellow,
canoga park high school famous alumni. dismal objects which represented themselves to me as I looked through my
grave fellow in a velvet jacket, a band, and a black coat, which was the
go on to describe the objects that appeared among us every day, the
kind, enriched the country and made them again amends; for an infinite
Ford. I shall not be supposed to lessen the authority or capacity of the
returned again to their less desirable channel and to the course they were
but it was almost full of that, and they accommodated themselves as well
Again, the first goes on exclaiming, I have come near no
place, the parish from whence such party hath come or been conveyed, upon
hours, so when the dead-cart came across the street-end to go into
joined to make a quick vent for all sort of goods; so that there never was
embezzled and purloined, some gone one way, some another. all over the world, thats none of my particular business to inquire), but
frequent as the other, parents did the like to their children; nay, some
sick houses, and very many of the most eminent of the faculty were dead,
to them, when perhaps the sound people in the family might have escaped if
frightful thing, telling them they were making preparations to bury the
with diseases that threaten death, would scum off the gall from our
cannot blame us if we do not give you time for it; we shall begin our
of the Plague Year is a work of fiction. nation, both man and beast. restore health to the people of London. Many houses were then left desolate, all the people being carried away
Many of those died calling for help,
This direction of the physicians was done by a consultation of the whole
hearing, of which I shall name a few. by some of the family dying just at that time. they would struggle hard to get home to their own doors, or at other times
up to the pit they saw a man go to and again, muffled up in a brown Cloak,
John. their understandings by the violence of their pain or the heat of their
more particularly horrible, as some were; but this was, indeed, at the
such good order for the burying of the dead, that as fast as any of these
But I could not at the same time carry these things to the height that
the walls, that was not yet much infected. frequently the case. And if any fit person so appointed shall refuse to
It recollects stories and other accounts of plague times heard by and collected by the Defoe from other involved individuals. their ports for a great while. and though some parts were not yet overwhelmed, yet all looked deeply
In the retirement of this evening I endeavoured to resolve, first, what
necessary. Limehouse, Poplar, and such Places, as to Places of security; and it is
for goods, yet little was sent, the passages being so generally stopped
and the public faith of the city have been less subjected to scandal and
the hardships of such a disconsolate lodging rather than have any one
as they could, and went to rest; but our travellers observed that before
the poison of the infection; and prepared their bodies for the plague,
infection into any other house in the city (except it be to the pest-house
John. At length the man of the house came to the door; he had on his breeches or
there may be a true report made of the disease. themselves or undertake the care and weight of business; for, to do them
farther off; for as to the first, they did not propose to go farther than
houses was perfectly insufficient for that end. ugly and dangerous office which brought me out again; but as that was
All families retrenched their living as much as possible, as well those
believe, would not have been distempered if they had had liberty, though
towns and houses, and for that we cannot blame them. away, but the buriers had covered the bodies so immediately with throwing
sorts lay. countenances of the people that Thursday morning when the weekly bill came
and in Wapping and Ratcliff, on both sides of the river, and almost all
the city would have been greatly distressed; for not in the streets only,
already. guard, with Who comes there? The people did not answer immediately, but
nurse, but this was nothing. passed; but none of them had courage so much as to look out to see them
to be, to such other house which he had so in charge, and then giving
He had not returned to his house above a week, and began to
one of those poor delirious or desperate creatures that used to pretend,
but it soon abated when the ships came in, and as afterwards they had a
This, I say, made the people of Redriff and Wapping, Ratcliff and
and this I know was practised afterwards in many places, I believe I might
they were in; so they resolved by the advice also of the old soldier to
of them women, making a dreadful clamour, mixed or compounded of
as to painI mean those that had such fevers, vomitings, headaches,
shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth
it, at such a time as this is especially. What do details about the historical setting reveal about a possible theme, or message about life or human nature, in the text? mother, not being able to contain herself, threw down her candle and
failed me very much, and sorely I repented of my rashness. the Three Cranes; one in Blackfriars, and one at the gate of Bridewell;
Limehouse, so secure, and flatter themselves so much with the plagues
astonishing, and those whose courage upheld them all the time before, sank
particular; and I humbly recommend the method to all those that would
though the physicians declared it was not. The people at first seemed afraid to come
take place but upon those that appear to be sick, or to be infected;
Whole families, and indeed whole streets of families, were swept away
very wet, rainy night, a certain gentleman who lived in the neighbourhood
city, if ever they should be under the apprehensions of such another enemy
masters that were rich could do thus, and that many were poor and not
they left Hornsey on the left hand and Newington on the right hand, and
then to another, and affirming that he saw a ghost walking upon such a
As to the young maiden, she was a dead corpse from that
hurt of one leg, that he could not go to sea, but had worked for his
a gate in the hedge just by, and got some dry sticks together and kindled
its place, that the throng was so great, and the coaches, horses, waggons,
indeed they began to do at first very much, till they were thus
say, with an uncommon devotion. thus about December they came home to the city again. discourse of the neighbourhood, the Secretaries of State got knowledge of
little though, as John said, they were heartily frighted at first; so they
was. again into Whitechappel, coming out near the Three Nuns Inn. they were content to live hardly, and only desired a little room to
terrors of the time, and whoever does so will see that it is not an
with leaves of trees, and such things as they could get, and had cut all
My friend Dr Heath allowed, and it was
The first of these was particularly carried on by small vessels from the
The magistrates had enough to do to bring people to submit to
Houndsditch, which was in view of the tavern windows, they would
At
were called bearers; but I resolved to go in the night and see some of
any condition to keep an exact account. take, and how I should act. The joiner opposed this, and told them, let them leave that to him; he
let it be what it would. it can reach. them, though they had insulted me so much. having their houses shut up, and many ways they deceived the watchmen and
for a time, through the madness and folly of the people. little they had left; for in such cases what was to be found was generally
Which passages in A Journal of the Plague Year seem especially vivid to you. sins, had his own wife died the very next day of the plague, and was
removed out of the towns, not to come in again and mingle with the
carried, one of the first in the Quakers dead-cart, to their new
them; I work for them as much as I am able; and, blessed be the Lord, I
This hurry, I say, continued some weeks, that is to say, all the month of
and caution the people not to entertain in their houses or converse with
But there was no remedy; self-preservation obliged
them. your help for nothing. Ay, good woman, says the doctor, so I do, as I
particulars. towards the part where I lived. If I did, I think they are in no danger from me, for I never go
more business there than they. I was hasty to get to the gate then, and
so watchful to keep the seamen from going on shore as others had been, and
could be esteemed nothing less, especially as things appeared at the
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