Plague

• What was the significance of the Great Plague's death toll?

  It killed between 70,000 and 100,000 Londoners
• How did the wealthy respond to outbreaks of plague?

  They often fled to their country houses
• What was the impact of the Great Plague on public health measures?

  It prompted the implementation of national plague orders
• When did the Great Plague occur in London?

  The Great Plague took place in 1665.
• What was a significant change in government response to the plague during the early modern period?

  Governments began to actively isolate plague victims and enforce health measures.
• What were the plague orders established in 1578?

  The plague orders included isolating victims and recording the spread of the disease.
• What was the purpose of hanging straw outside infected houses?

  Straw was hung to identify infected houses and isolate victims.
• How did local authorities in Yarmouth respond to the plague?

  They banned pigs, dogs, and cats from infected streets.
• Who introduced isolation?

  Henry VIII
• Who introduced the plague orders?

  Elizabeth I
• Who passed the plague act?


  James I
• When was the isolation proclamation?

  1518
• When were the plague orders ordered?

  1578
• When was the plague act passed?


  1604
• Name 4 parts of the Plague orders


  • Infected housed were shut up for 6 weeks
  • Special prayers said in church
  • Cleaned streets
  • Barrels of tar burnt in the streets
• Name 3 parts of the Plague Act

  • A plague victim outside their house could be hung
  • Someone from a plague house outside could be whipped
  • allowed towns to collect money from parishes to help the ill
• What did the plague orders improve?


  They cleaned the streets but for the wrong reasons
• What did the Plague Act improve?


  helped with pneumonic plague
• Why didn't the Plague orders create improvement?


  barrels of tar being burnt would increase lung problems

  They didn't understand how the plague was spreading
• What didn't the Plague act create an improvement?


  Made living conditions inside of houses worse: houses would be shut up for 6 weeks without getting rid of their waste (this would also attract rats and spread the plague more)
• Name 2 parts of the Isolation orders


  • Straw should be hung from the windows to identify plague houses
  • Anyone leaving the house should carry a white stick
• Why didn't the Isolation orders help?


  Made living conditions worse, with a build up of waste.
• What type of plague did the Isolation orders help?

  Pneumonic
• What belief does the Isolation orders prove?


  the belief in Contagion
• What belief does the Plague orders prove?

  Miasma -> barrels of tar burnt

  Punishment from god -> Prayers in church

  Contagion -> Houses shut up for 6 weeks
• What belief does the Plague Act prove?


  Contagion