What did it look like in london in the plague 1665 i have to write a diary entry?
The streets of London were filthy at that time, which caused the Plague to spread quickly. anyone who could afford to leave london did so. The famous diarist Samuel Pepys wrote; “Lord! how sad it is to see the streets empty of people and two shops out of three, if not more, shut up.” The disease spread so fast that soon there was no time for decent burials, nor could coffins be made fast enough. At night carts would go through the streets, and to the mournful cry of “bring out your dead” bereaved families would toss a corpse – often more than one – into the grisley pile, to be taken for communal interment in great pits on the outskirts of town. In an attempt to prevent the spread of the disease the authorities ordained that any house with a plague victim in it must be closed up, with a red cross on the door and the words “Lord have mercy upon us”. some families tried to hide any members who fell sick,or to bribe the women ‘Searchers of the Dead’ not to report the truth to the authoriti
