Tudors and Stuarts

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Tudors and Stuarts

• The Great Plague

Prepare for the most gruesome information ever!
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• London had changed little since 1480. Houses were
  tightly packed together and conditions in
  sanitary - ideal conditions for the plague to
  spread, particularly during the hot summer of 1665

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The plague swept through Europe 
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• In 1347 refugees from Genoese settlements in the
  Crimea brought a new disease to Italy. Within
  five years, anything up to half of the population
  of Europe had died from the plague. Most deaths
  were from bubonic plague, which caused swellings
  and was spread by fleabites, or pneumonic plague,
  which infected the lungs and spread through
  contact with other victims. Both were caused by
  the same bacterium, carried by fleas parasitic on
  black rats.

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The Flea that caused The Black Death
By 1348 the plague had reached England. The
overall death rate was around one in three, while
at the extremes of population density its impact
was even greater the cities were devastated,
while many small villages simply ceased to exist.
Further outbreaks, the worst in 1361, brought the
overall death toll to around half of the
population of England, which had stood at four or
five million.
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     Dead littered the streets
everywhere. Cattle and livestock roamed the
country unattended. Brother deserted brother.
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By James B. and Philip G.
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Credits
Written By James B Philip G Written At Loders
CE VC Primary School Helped By Mrs. Buckland
Mr. Kite Jackdaws