It
____________________
in
London
in
the
poor
,
overcrowded
parish
of
St
.
Giles
-
in
-
the
-
Field
.
It
____________________
slowly
at
first
but
by
May
of
1665
,
43
____________________
____________________
.
In
June
6137
people
____________________
,
in
July
17036
people
and
at
its
peak
in
August
,
31159
people
died
.
In
all
,
15%
of
the
population
____________________
during
that
terrible
summer
.
Incubation
took
a
mere
four
to
six
days
and
when
the
plague
____________________
in
a
household
,
the
house
was
____________________
,
thus
____________________
the
whole
family
to
death
!
These
houses
were
____________________
by
a
painted
red
cross
on
the
door
and
the
words
,
'Lord
have
mercy
on
us'
.
At
night
the
corpses
were
____________________
out
in
answer
to
the
cry
,
'
Bring
out
your
dead'
,
put
in
a
cart
and
____________________
away
to
the
plague
pits
.
One
called
the
Great
Pit
was
at
Aldgate
in
London
and
another
at
Finsbury
Fields
.
The
King
,
Charles
II
and
his
Court
____________________
London
and
____________________
to
Oxford
.
Those
people
who
could
____________________
their
families
away
from
London
during
these
months
,
but
the
poor
had
no
recourse
but
to
stay
.
In
his
diary
,
Samuel
Pepys
____________________
a
vivid
account
of
the
empty
streets
in
London
,
as
all
who
could
had
left
in
an
attempt
to
flee
the
pestilence
.
It
was
____________________
that
holding
a
posy
of
flowers
to
the
nose
____________________
away
the
plague
and
to
this
day
judges
are
still
given
a
nose
-
gay
to
carry
on
ceremonial
occasions
as
a
protection
against
the
plague
!
A
song
about
the
plague
is
still
____________________
by
children
.
'Ring
-
a
-
ring
of
roses'
describes
in
great
detail
the
symptoms
of
the
plague
and
ends
with
'All
fall
down'
.
The
last
word
,
'dead'
,
is
____________________
today
.
The
plague
____________________
to
many
parts
of
England
.
York
was
one
city
badly
____________________
.
The
plague
victims
were
____________________
outside
the
city
walls
and
it
is
said
that
they
have
never
been
____________________
since
then
,
as
a
precaution
against
a
resurgence
of
the
____________________
plague
.
The
grassy
embankments
below
the
city
walls
____________________
the
sites
of
these
plague
pits
.
