The Good The Bad and The Pure Evil
Society & Culture:Documentary
In this episode of The Good, The Bad and The Pure Evil, I look at the Great Plague of London which was an epidemic of the bubonic plague. It would have the walled city of London in 1665 reduced to a ghost town of the wandering dead, corpses or plague doctors. They tried everything to contain the disease from quarantines, isolations, lock ins but nothing worked. People also feared the disease and would often lie on the death certs as to what killed their family member. Numbers stand of 200,000 deaths in England of the plague but the true number is thought to be much much higher.....
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