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The Great Plague of London (1665) was perhaps the most important medical emergency in English history. It would eventually lead to changes in the way that we deal with pandemics - changes that are still important today

A Journal of the Plague Year opens with the unnamed narrator reporting alarming news arriving from Europe.

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We learned that there had been a incrase in burials in the parish of St Giles. The number for the final week that January was the recorded since 1656.
In April,1665 the number of burials dramatically in every parish. The infection was spreading the city.
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