Index • 35337 , 48 , 54 , 144 ; at Brentwood, 200 , 211 ;at
Colchester, 12 , 207 , 259 ; in Hertford-
shire, 205 ; personnel of, 79 , 121 , 166 , 191 –
92 , 221 , 224 , 228 ; at Portsmouth, 209 ;in
Saint Giles Cripplegate, 54 , 81 , 88 , 230 ;
for Saint Giles in the Fields, 190 – 91 ;in
Saint Margaret Westminster, 54 , 88 , 121 –
22 ; for Saint Paul Covent Garden and
Saint Martin in the Fields, 185 , 188 ,
190 – 91 , 266 ; at Salisbury, 12 ; at Stepney,
191 , 224 ; at Yarmouth, 51 .See alsohospi-
tals; Plague Orders
Petty, Sir William, 90 , 162 – 63 , 167 , 253 – 54 ,
263
philanthropy, 28 , 41 , 43 – 45 , 114 , 122 , 169 ,
230 – 31 , 252 – 53
physicians.Seechemical physicians; doctors
(medical)
plague measures (foreign): against the
Black Death and successor epidemics,
12 – 14 ; in Hong Kong ( 1894 ), 273 – 77 ;af-
ter Industrial Revolution, 271 – 72
plague measures (London): burial grounds,
186 , 188 , 224 , 230 , 253 ; dog and cat kill-
ing, 115 – 16 ; elimination of pestered
places, 254 ; financing of, 188 , 252 , 338 n.
17 ; public fires, 177 – 78 , 217 – 19 ; public
gatherings prohibited, 116 , 117 ; public
health committee and medical corps,
144 – 47 , 251 – 52 ; restraint of vagrants and
other suspected carriers, 116 ; shift from
prevention to relief, 221 ; street cleansing,
55 – 56 ; tavern and inn use controlled, 116.
See alsopesthouses;Plague Orders; royal
government; shutting up infected
houses
Plague Orders: before the Great Plague, 14 ,
52 ; modest changes in, 210 – 211 , 253 – 55 ;
reimposed, 55 – 56 , 220 .See alsoplague
measures (foreign); plague measures
(London); shutting up infected houses
plague pandemics: causes for end of,
284 – 86 ; common identification of,
286 – 87 , 342 n. 50 ; first pandemic, 5 – 6 ;
second pandemic, 5 , 6 , 7 – 15 , 270 – 71 ;
third pandemic, 5 , 6 , 273 – 78 , 283
plague representations: in art, 12 , 182 ;in
biblical and classical accounts, 5 ;in
broadsides and tracts, 84 , 182 ; as catas-
trophe, 15 , 305 n. 17 , 307 n. 41 ; as dem-
ographic aberration, 15 – 16 ; as the De-
stroying Angel, 12 , 58 ; in literature and
poetry, 7 , 182 , 196 – 97 ; as the “poores
plague,” 47 – 48 .See alsoreligious re-
sponses
plague terminology: bubonic, pneumonic,
and septicemic, 283 ; in classical Greece
and Rome, 5 ; in early modern England,
6 , 63
poor (as a class): associated with disease,
47 – 48 , 186 ; collectors for, 43 , 118 ; deserv-
ing vs. undeserving, 28 , 40 – 41 ; literacy
of, 321 n. 24 ; parishes ranked poor by
hearth taxes, 81 – 82 , 316 n. 9 ; percentage
of the population by area, 39 – 40 ; plague
antidotes and, 106 – 110 ; plague relief
and other help for, 100 , 144 , 252 – 53 ;
Poor Law, 41 – 44 , 230 ; undocumented
numbers of, 41 , 44 .See alsohousing; in-
come
Poor Law, 41 – 44 , 230
popular healers, 95 , 101 , 109 – 110 , 141 , 155
postal service, 82 , 162
preventive measures, 163 – 64 ; amulets, 112 ;
fumigation, 106 – 7 ; in Hong Kong
( 1894 ), 274 – 75 ; plague waters and drugs,
103 – 8 ; potable gold, 110 – 11 , 322 n. 36 ; for
returnees, 244 ; six nonnaturals, 97 , 103 ;
syphilis, 141 ; tobacco, 105 – 6 , 271 ; vac-
cines, 272 , 277 – 78 , 284 , 291 .See alsoquar-
antine (shipping); shutting up infected
houses; treatments
prisons: Bridewell, 23 , 41 – 42 , 269 ; comptors
(secondary jails), 116 ; Gatehouse, 227 ;
Ludgate, 116 ; Newgate, 116 , 223 – 24
provisions: markets and slaughterhouses,
29 , 30 – 31 , 48 , 265 ; production and supply
of, 1 – 2 , 28 , 31 – 32 , 50 , 113 , 162 , 166 – 69 ;