1563 London plague
1563 CE
In 1563 London experiences its worst episode of plague during the sixteenth century.
At least twenty thousand one hundred and thiry-six people in London and surrounding parishes are recorded to have died of plague during this outbreak.
Around twenty-four percent of London's population ultimately perishes, but the plague affects London's insanitary parishes and neighborhoods the most.
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The City of London is overcrowded, unsanitary, and poorly-policed.
Queen Elizabeth reigns in her fifth year and the government struggles with a rapidly increasing population.
Although sanitation is a constant problem, the city has gone over a dozen years without a plague epidemic and many contemporary Londoners had grown unconcerned about the disease.
Queen Elizabeth reigns in her fifth year and the government struggles with a rapidly increasing population.
Although sanitation is a constant problem, the city has gone over a dozen years without a plague epidemic and many contemporary Londoners had grown unconcerned about the disease.
Plague suddenly erupts in 1563 in Derby, ...
...Leicester, and ...
...London with such virulence that ...
...sickness spreads to English troops garrisoned at Havre, weakening them and causing a surrender to French forces.
An average of fourteen hundred and forty-nine people are dying weekly between August 27 and October 1, peaking at eighteen hundred and twenty-eight plague deaths in London for the week ending October 1.
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
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