European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 23, 1965, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wen marked with a foot Long red Cross upon the door above which was. Lettered lord have mercy on  Wen designated to guard them Day and night to Insun no one left or entered and to obtain food Medicine and other necessities for  family. Quarantining brought on behaviour which Only served to spread the disease. Well members of a family Felt Doome cloistered with a dying person and Many used every ruse even the threat of murder to get the watchman away and escape. These rushed to other sections of the City unknowingly carrying death with  other appointees under penalty if they refused to serve Wen searchers women named to Check the bodies of the living Fol  newly dead for the plague s tokens Gan spots and knobs and ugly swell the swellings Wen the outstanding indication and in a journal of the plague tear written by the same de foe who wrote Robinson Crusoe the author wrote the pain of the swelling was in particular very violent and to some intolerable the physicians. May be said to have tortured Many poor creature seven to death. The swellings in some grew hard and they applied violent drawing pm Moleri and poultices to break them and if these did not do they Cut and scarified them in a terrible manner. In some. Those swellings were Robard that no instrument could Cut them and then they Burnt them with Caustics Merable headaches pains in the  swellings or tutors in the neck Groin or  no chore was More gruesome Nan that of the dead Carf opera tors who were forced to Toad up body on body As the toll increased. With con mention for the populace dead carts Wen ordered operated Only at night when burials also took place without Friend or family in  july and August London was a scene of cautious Folk empty streets the shocking sight of shoppers dropping dead in the Road or store delirious vie urns weaving through the lanes and screams and cries of pain from Ope windows. The plague toll Rose to 3,880 Lor the week of aug. .8, to 4.s37 the next and 6.m8 the last week of the month. September and the worst loomed. In their Homes London s fearful survivors fed hot fires burning resin pitch tar and Oil and setting off Gunpowder to kill die plague which Many suspected was carried in the air. Even in High places so certain Wen some that Burn ing coals destroyed the infection that on sept. And several other Days As reported in Penis diary the Cit ordered Coal fires lit in the streets through the whole City. All the Way fins on each Side of the thames. As another precaution. 40.800 dogs and100.000 cats were put to death and the Clov set out poisons for rats and  and quacks alike pre scribed remedies and preventatives scents to Ward off 10 breath and the stench of sons garlic and vinegar another substances and concoctions and even a Gold Coin in the Mouth the first week of september claimed the sick began to recover particularly if the swellings could be broken open. The decrease led the impatient Amon those who had run from the City to re turn and those who had stayed in the City to mingle carelessly so that for a time the plague still held Sway. By october however plague deaths were Down to 1,�s in one week and Down bym6re than a thousand the next. Cold weather came tempering the disease Ana in december the death lists Wen almost Normal. London s streets were full again. Its businesses reopening. Another curse awaited  was in the wee hours of sunday sept. 1, 1w, Folt Ewig a hot. Dry sum Mer drying out London s timbered buildings when a Fin broke out in bakery pudding Lane near the London Bridge. The flames leaped to neighbor Tnge uses and the lord mayor was summoned from his bed but judge then was no danger. A wind came to feed the flames and push them along to the Promise of troops it the resident should protest lord what can i do i am spent people will not obey me. I have been pulling Down houses but the fire Over takes us faster than we can do it the lord mayor told Pepys. Ryphe warehouses filled with tar a. Pitch Oil wine and Brandy served As fuel for the great fire and fire drops bits of burning materials floating in the air fell on the Cit starting new conflagrations. Terrified again londoners packed then belong Ings into carts and flooded the streets with miserable  Corners and upon steeples and Between churches and Bouses most horrid Maud us bloody name. Clutched the City As Nightfall. On the second Day. Toe Duke of York brought out his guard to keep order As Best they could and How were allowed to be pulled  Down wooden buildings proved too slow however and the City resorted dead Carti were ordered operated Only at night.  victims the second .544. And the next 746s, though knowledgeable men believed officials did not give a True account. In some households entire families Wen struck Down in a matter of hours and with no one to report the deaths the bodies would lie for several Days until neighbors took note of the  and correspondence with the continent came to a Complete Stop wit ships out of London barred from most ports. The Trade drop halted manufacture and that i turn left Many Lon doners without jobs. The City Treasury and some of the wealthy stepped in with Charity to tide them  surely though not suddenly the plague deaths began to reduce by the hundreds a week and strangely Many of a riverfront area crowded with Ware houses stuffed with flammable Mer  the note like language of is diary Pepys reported so i Downto the Waterside and then got a boat. And then saw a lamentable fire. Everybody endeavouring to remove their goods and flinging into the River. A people staying in their houses As As till the very fire touched them then running into boats. Pepys a government official in addition to a diarist was called by the King to report on the tire which quickly Laid ruin to several Hundred Homes. He suggested that rows of houses be pulled Down to contain the Blaze and the King commanded him to give the lord mayor his orders to tear Down the houses with tumbling Down on their own foundations successfully stopping the flames. That night too As Pepys stood on a boat the whole City seemed to be on Fin. A sad sight to see How the River looks no houses or Church near it. But on sept. 7. Rising Early Pepys was Able to write blessed be god i i find All  the Fin was out. Almost 41 acres of real estate Lay in ashes. One new ruling was issued immediately houses were to be built of Stone or Brick instead of  late Winston Churchill in his his tory of the English speaking Peoples comments on the Fin to later times it seems that thereal calamity was not the destruction of the insanitary medieval Der As the failure to carry through Christopher Wren s plan for rebuilding it As a uni of quays and avenues entered on St Paul s and the Royal Exchange. The task of reconstruction was none the less faced with courage and from the ashes of the old Cathedral Rose the splendid dome of St. Paul s As it stands  new life and Prosperity came to England on the heels of these two gnat disasters. With Trade and manual stun off during the gnat plague and wit merchandise and buildings destroyed in the great fire the City and much of Britain hummed so that then never was known such a Trade All Over eng land for the time As was in the next seven years As Defoe recorded the Dif efts  bit week -m4 Lof Don from a both the whole dry seemed to be on  Page from deals lilt shows week s plague loll of 3,880. Thi stars and Striks