Precautions taken in Stettin since the arrival…
1709 CE
According to Zapnik (2006), the returning soldiers' wives who had contact with the plague-stricken areas around Poznań were most likely the transmitters of the plague to Pomerania.
After the outbreak in Damm, the mail route connecting Stettin with Stargard in the adjacent Prussian province of Pomerania via Damm is relocated to Podejuch.
Despite the precautions, the plague breaks out in Warsow, just north of Stettin, and by the end of September also inside Stettin's walls, transmitted by a local woman who had provided food to her son in Damm.
As in Danzig, the city council downplays the plague cases to not impair Stettin's trade, but also sets up a health commission and pest houses and hires personnel to deal with the infected.