It is unclear whether the plague has already arrived in Zealand's northeastern port of Helsingør (Elsinore), where the Sound Dues are collected from entering ship, and where a suspicious series of deaths is reported by the local health commission, allegedly starting with the death in the town on October 1, 1710, of a Dutch passenger arriving from Stockholm.
The death toll in Swedish Estonia and Swedish Livonia (both of which capitulate to the Russian tsar in 1710) totals up to seventy-five of the population between 1709 and 1711.
The plague, in addition to Damm, and Stettin, where two thousand people die, ravages Pasewalk from 1709 to 1710, killing sixty-seven percent of its inhabitants, ...