Epidemic Disease in London

August Bills of Mortality body bubonic plague burial registers buried cause of death cent Centre for Metropolitan Christ Church churchwardens churchyard contagion contemporary Defoe died discourses dispensary early modern London eighteenth-century endemic environment epidemic disease epidemiological example female fever Fleet Street graves Hearth Tax high mortality Hospital households houses Ibid individual infected infectious disease John July Lane Margaret medical response medicine mortality pattern named sample number of deaths outbreak parish registers parish to show Paul Slack period pestilence physicians plague burial plague dead Plague Orders plague victims poor population poverty problem records relationship between disease RIVER THAMES seventeenth century smallpox social specific Spitalfields spread St Botolph St Bride's St Dunstan St Katharine St Mary Aldermary St Mary Colechurch St Mary Somerset St Stephen Walbrook suburbs suggest surviving syphilis Thomas Dekker Tower Liberty Vanessa Harding vestry minutes week beginning Weekly burials Whitefriars