An average of fourteen hundred and forty-nine…
1563 CE
Queen Elizabeth's government gives new orders on September 30 that all houses with infected individuals should have their doors and windows boarded up and that no person inside shall make contact with persons outside for forty days.
This strict quarantine may have had an immediate effect, with plague deaths the next week dropping over thirty percent to twelve hundred and sixty-two for the week ending October 8.
It is normal during plague outbreaks for the disease to subside or break in a community during the winter months, as rats and their fleas retreat from snow and their resources become thin.
By December 2 deaths have fallen to one hundred and seventy-eight per week and the Common Council releases an order that none of the houses where plague patients had been can be rented out.
Cases will continue to decline to thirteen deaths for the week ending January 21, 1564 before plague dissipates from the city
