Letter: Plague parallels in our current crisis
In 1665 the country, especially densely populated London, suffered from the plague. The following year the House of Lords met to discuss the situation. It was decided that the policy of confining infected persons within their household would not apply to “persons of note” and plague hospitals, such as the house on Fambridge Road, would not be established near the houses of the nobility. Large numbers of the rich fled the capital to their country estates, unknowing or possibly unconcerned, if they took the disease with them. Lying on a trade route from London to the north, the plag...
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