Effects Of The Plague In London In The 14th Century

In the 14th century an estimate of 137 million people died or ⅓ or England, The plague spread due to the middle of the street, was where people emptied their waste. People thought that the plague came from God and had no understanding of germs that actually caused it. It had a significant impact in the areas of physical suffering, business and how society worked.

The way the city was built was why the plague spread so quick. The plague was brought through the slave trade and when it reached London, the plague spread rapidly due to the middle of the street, was the place where people emptied their faeces. Toilets hung over the rivers and streams, or there were cess pools at the backs of the houses where the sewage seeped into the wells and drinking water and rats loved it. In 1348 London was one of the largest towns in Europe. Every way the city was built helped to spread the plague. People often shared beds. And even sometimes there were no beds, and a dozen people could be found asleep on a straw covered mud floor. And some family had animals sleep with them. The black rats loved the filth and the warmth, they loved the narrow streets with houses crammed together, they feasted on the rubbish, thrown out of windows on to passers by, and
Some believed it was a punishment from God, some believed that foreigners or those who followed a different religion had poisoned the wells, some thought that bad air was responsible, some thought the position of the planets had caused the plague. All these different beliefs led to some strange attempts at escaping the plague and some even stranger cures. People such as Flagellants were people who travelled around the city whipping each other. They believed that the Black Death was God's punishment. They punished themselves in order for forgiveness and travelled around, singing hymns and saying