Hamburg and Bremen are crowded with refugees of war, and Bremen in addition is suffering from a smallpox epidemic that has causes the deaths of thirteen hundred and ninety children in 1711.
... Cajana (Kajana, Kajaani) between 1710 and 1711.
As the actual cause of the plague is unknown, counter-measures include flight, dissection of buboes, and the lighting of huge fires to reduce the air's humidity, which is thought to reduce the chance of being affected by the plague's "bad air."
The plague had seemingly faded out in the winter in Uppland, but it continues, though with less intensity, to ravage the Uppland countryside throughout the whole year of 1711, infecting for instance Värmdö, Tillinge, and ...